Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3.7 Flash
Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.8 vs 39.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.7 Flash in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.7 Flash leads 48.9 to 41.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 86.7% for Qwen3.7 Flash.
- Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.03 / $0.13 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
- Qwen3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 39.9 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2026-07-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 64K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | $0.03 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | $0.13 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 46.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | — |
| Cybench | 35% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.7 Flash leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Qwen3.7 Flash: 28.2 (#108)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | 144.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 43.8% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 23% |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 15% |
| DTBench | 77.1% | — |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | — |
Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Qwen3.7 Flash: 38.3 (#140)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 86.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 19.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1375 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.7 Flash leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Qwen3.7 Flash: 48.9 (#75)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | 82.3% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | — |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1350 | — |
| LMArena French | 1363 | — |
| LMArena German | 1331 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1302 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1357 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1376 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Qwen3.7 Flash: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Qwen3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | — |
| WildBench | 83.8% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Qwen3.7 Flash?
Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (40.8 vs 39.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or Qwen3.7 Flash?
Qwen3.7 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.13 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3.7 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3.7 Flash share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Flash has 7.