Compare / Qwen3 Max vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Qwen3 Max vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
18 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.
| Benchmark | Metric | Qwen3 Max | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Business, management and financeArena rating | 1,419 | 1,482 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Creative writingArena rating | 1,393 | 1,449 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Expert promptsArena rating | 1,418 | 1,506 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Instruction followingArena rating | 1,413 | 1,475 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | OverallArena rating | 1,423 | 1,472 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Writing, literature and languageArena rating | 1,405 | 1,455 |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score | 15.6 | 30.1 |
| Artificial Analysisreported | GPQA Diamond% of questions | 76.4% | 87.5% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Humanity's Last Exam% of questions | 11.9% | 33.6% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | IFBench% of instructions | 44.1% | 56.6% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions | 50.0% | 80.0% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks | 20.5% | 53.0% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Τ²-bench telecom% of tasks | 74.3% | 79.5% |
| SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reported | Correct answers% of questions | 48.7% | 35.5% |
| UGI Leaderboardreported | Requested-length error% off the requested word count | 23.0% | 2.0% |
| UGI Leaderboardreported | Style adherencescore from 0 to 1 | 0.33 | 0.41 |
| UGI Leaderboardreported | Writing scorescore out of 100 | 38.6 | 64.5 |
| Vending-Bench 2reported | Money after a yearUS dollars | $71.56 | $7,204.14 |
Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.