Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.2

Rank #117 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen3.6 27B in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 27B leads 48.5 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 12.6% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 35.1% for Qwen3.6 27B.
  • Qwen3.6 27B is cheaper at $0.60 / $3.60 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Qwen3.6 27B accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Qwen3.6 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.042.2
Released2025-08-052026-04-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output32K66K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.60
Output $ / M tokens$75$3.60
Results tracked4811

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Qwen3.6 27B: 39.1 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
SciCode—37.3%
WeirdML45.9%—
LMArena Coding1479—
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Qwen3.6 27B: 25.0 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
Chess Puzzles7%22%
Mystery Game Puzzles21%7%
DTBench80%78.1%
LMCA37.1%34.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12146.5
SimpleBench60%—
CritPt—0.9%
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1443—
ForecastBench62—

Math Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Qwen3.6 27B: 48.5 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%35.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%91.1%
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
LMArena Math1431—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Qwen3.6 27B: 52.4 (#63)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
GPQA Diamond77.3%85.9%
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
LMArena Expert1439—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
LMArena Non-English1405—
LMArena Chinese1427—
LMArena French1431—
LMArena German1413—
LMArena Japanese1378—
LMArena Korean1380—
LMArena Russian1422—
LMArena Spanish1448—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
LMArena Instruction Following1435—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Qwen3.6 27B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
LMArena Longer Query1455—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Qwen3.6 27B: 50.3 (#181)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3.6 27B
LMArena Text1419—
LMArena Creative Writing1412—
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
EQ-Bench 4—1026
LMArena Multi-Turn1444—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Qwen3.6 27B?

Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen3.6 27B?

Qwen3.6 27B is cheaper. It lists at $0.60 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen3.6 27B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 39.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 27B does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen3.6 27B share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 27B has 11.

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