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Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B vs Claude Opus 4.7

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 20 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

AlibabaQwen3-Coder-480B-A35B Released 31 Jul 2025 · $0.35 in · $1.50 out
AnthropicClaude Opus 4.7 Released 16 Apr 2026 · $5.00 in · $25.00 out
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B wins 0Claude Opus 4.7 wins 20

Of the 20 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 9 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-09-dd620e778ac5). See also Alibaba vs Anthropic, every model from both labs.

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7? The short answer

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if quality matters most: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 40.7 against 11.9). Pick Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B if cost matters more: it costs 16 times less per token.

  • Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B is cheaper: $0.64 against $10.00 per million tokens, 16 times less.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 40.7 against 11.9.
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is newer: released 16 Apr 2026, against 31 Jul 2025 for Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B.
  • On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Claude Opus 4.7 does better for agents and tool use, reasoning and knowledge, writing and sticking to the facts.

Head to head

11.9
Intelligence Index
40.7
$0.64
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$10.00
262,144
Context window, tokens
1,000,000

Every fact side by side

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35BClaude Opus 4.7
Price per million tokens$0.35 in · $1.50 out$5.00 in · $25.00 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.64$10.00
Cheapest host, blended$0.47 (DeepInfra, FP4)$10.00 (Amazon Bedrock)
Intelligence Index11.940.7
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second––
Context window262,144 tokens1,000,000 tokens
Released31 Jul 202516 Apr 2026 (newer)
WeightsOpenClosed
Developer based inChinathe US

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 162 of 164 25 of 164
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects not measured 23 of 51
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 152 of 198 27 of 198
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 121 of 188 25 of 188
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 132 of 152 52 of 152

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureQwen3-Coder-480B-A35BClaude Opus 4.7
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results
Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 156 · 5 of 387 measured 1,387 1,501high reasoning
Overall · Text factualityArena rating, higher is better 135 · 14 of 163 measured 1,401 1,477high reasoning
Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 148 · 3 of 380 measured 1,391 1,508high reasoning
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 154 · 23 of 243 measured 11.9 40.7max reasoning
GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 178 · 28 of 231 measured 61.8% 91.4%max reasoning
Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 202 · 32 of 242 measured 4.5% 42.3%max reasoning
OpenHands Index reported by OpenHands Index · 3 results
Average% resolved, higher is better 33 · 3 of 34 measured 30.9%openhands 69.7%openhands
Front end (SWE-Bench Multimodal)% resolved, higher is better 29 · 3 of 34 measured 23.5%openhands 48.5%openhands
Greenfield (Commit0)% resolved, higher is better 34 · 3 of 34 measured 0.0%openhands 56.2%openhands
Show all 20 results (11 more)
MeasureQwen3-Coder-480B-A35BClaude Opus 4.7
Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 4 results
Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 141 · 6 of 385 measured 1,363 1,489high reasoning
Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 174 · 9 of 338 measured 1,379 1,534high reasoning
Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 144 · 5 of 387 measured 1,384 1,502high reasoning
Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 150 · 5 of 386 measured 1,366 1,497high reasoning
Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 4 results
IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 133 · 83 of 195 measured 40.5% 58.6%max reasoning
Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 161 · 53 of 233 measured 45.7% 78.7%max reasoning
Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 94 · 7 of 190 measured 18.9% 54.5%no reasoning
τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 110 · 47 of 193 measured 43.6% 88.6%max reasoning
OpenHands Index reported by OpenHands Index · 3 results
Information gathering (GAIA)% resolved, higher is better 29 · 5 of 34 measured 33.9%openhands 81.2%openhands
Issue resolution (SWE-Bench)% resolved, higher is better 30 · 3 of 34 measured 62.4%openhands 81.6%openhands
Testing (SWT-Bench)% resolved, higher is better 32 · 5 of 34 measured 34.9%openhands 80.8%openhands

Quick answers

Is Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B better than Claude Opus 4.7?

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if quality matters most: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 40.7 against 11.9). Pick Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B if cost matters more: it costs 16 times less per token.

Which is cheaper, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7?

Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B is cheaper: $0.64 against $10.00 per million tokens, 16 times less.

Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 4.7 ranks 25 of 164 models on sale for multi-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls, against 162 for Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B.

Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 4.7 ranks 27 of 198 models on sale for hard questions across science, maths and general knowledge, against 152 for Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B.

Which is better for writing, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 4.7 ranks 25 of 188 models on sale for what people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality, against 121 for Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B.

Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 4.7 ranks 52 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 132 for Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B.

Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B or Claude Opus 4.7?

Claude Opus 4.7: 1,000,000 tokens, against 262,144 for Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B.

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