Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Flash
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 29.0 to 18.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 38.8 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2026-04-27 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.13 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 326.4 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | 35.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 143.26 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 18% |
| DTBench | — | 77.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| LMCA | — | 31% |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 84.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | 10.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 22.5% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 83.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 15.9% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | — |
| LMArena French | 1303 | — |
| LMArena German | 1301 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Qwen3.6 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen3.6 Flash?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.5 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Flash share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.