Head-to-head comparison across 1benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 4.1 Opus
51
Qwen3.7 Max
93
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude 4.1 Opus unranked · Qwen3.7 Max #2
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Coding
+0.9 difference
Claude 4.1 Opus
Qwen3.7 Max
$15 / $75
$null / $null
29 t/s
N/A
1.66s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 4.1 Opus only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Qwen3.7 Max is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 51. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.7 Max is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude 4.1 Opus is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.7 Max gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus.
Qwen3.7 Max is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 51. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 74.5% and 80.4%.
Claude 4.1 Opus has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 74.5 versus 73.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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