Model comparison
Qwen3 Max vs Claude 4 Sonnet
Capability radar, value bars, and side-by-side posture.
Qwen3 Max
Not scored
value score
Claude 4 Sonnet
91
value score
Qwen3 Max ctx
—
Claude 4 Sonnet ctx
200K
Capability radar
Value · context · multimodal · openness · speed posture
Value head-to-head
- Claude 4 Sonnet91
Attribute tape
| Field | Qwen3 Max | Claude 4 Sonnet |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Qwen | Anthropic |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Modalities | Text, Code, Image | |
| Openness | — | Proprietary Model |
| Speed | — | Fast |
| Price | — | $3/1M in · $15/1M out |
| Value score | — | 91 |
| Summary | Qwen3 Max is Alibaba Cloud's flagship proprietary large language model, a closed-weight API-only model with a Mixture-of-Experts architecture designed for coding, reasoning, long-context tasks, and agent/tool-use workloads. It is the top-tier model in the Qwen3 family, positioned for users who want maximum capability without self-hosting open-weight models. | Balanced Claude model for coding and agents. |