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Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.6-27B

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 35 shared benchmark results across 7 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

64.22/100
Margin
10.4pts
← winning
53.82/100
2 category wins3 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.5 #34 (Supported); Qwen3.6-27B #93 (Estimated). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.6-27B share 35 comparable benchmark results. 5 of 8 categories are comparable. 24 results are unique to Claude Opus 4.5; 19 to Qwen3.6-27B.

Updated July 21, 2026
Shared results
35
Claude Opus 4.5 only
24
Qwen3.6-27B only
19
Comparable categories
5 / 8

Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-27B only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 35 shared benchmark results across 7 evidence categories; 5 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the BenchAlign aggregate, 64.22 to 53.82. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 58.1 against 53.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is CharXiv, 68.5% to 78.4%. Qwen3.6-27B does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude Opus 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $5.00 input / $25.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Qwen3.6-27B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Qwen3.6-27B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.5 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. Qwen3.6-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.6-27B
CategoryClaude Opus 4.5ΔQwen3.6-27B
MathClaude Opus 4.557.5Margin 31.7Qwen3.6-27B89.2
MultimodalClaude Opus 4.569.9Margin 6.8Qwen3.6-27B76.7
CodingClaude Opus 4.571.7Margin 5.8Qwen3.6-27B77.5
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.558.1Margin 4.8Qwen3.6-27B53.3
AgenticClaude Opus 4.562.6Margin 3.3Qwen3.6-27B59.3
ReasoningClaude Opus 4.564.4MarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27BNot measured
MultilingualClaude Opus 4.585.7MarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27BNot measured
Inst. FollowingClaude Opus 4.569.5MarginNo overlapQwen3.6-27BNot measured

Decisive benchmark drivers

The largest measured benchmark gaps in this matchup, with exact reported values.

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A · Claude Opus 4.5B · Qwen3.6-27B
  1. CharXiv

    Multimodal
    Source ↗
    A 68.5%B 78.4%
    Winner: Qwen3.6-27BΔ 9.9
    CharXiv: Claude Opus 4.5 scored 68.5%; Qwen3.6-27B scored 78.4%. Qwen3.6-27B wins this benchmark.
  2. HLE

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 30.8%B 24%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.5Δ 6.8
    HLE: Claude Opus 4.5 scored 30.8%; Qwen3.6-27B scored 24%. Claude Opus 4.5 wins this benchmark.
  3. MMMU-Pro

    Multimodal
    Source ↗
    A 70.6%B 75.8%
    Winner: Qwen3.6-27BΔ 5.2
    MMMU-Pro: Claude Opus 4.5 scored 70.6%; Qwen3.6-27B scored 75.8%. Qwen3.6-27B wins this benchmark.
  4. SuperGPQA

    Knowledge
    Source ↗
    A 70.6%B 66%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.5Δ 4.6
    SuperGPQA: Claude Opus 4.5 scored 70.6%; Qwen3.6-27B scored 66%. Claude Opus 4.5 wins this benchmark.
  5. SWE-bench Verified

    Coding
    Source ↗
    A 80.9%B 77.2%
    Winner: Claude Opus 4.5Δ 3.7
    SWE-bench Verified: Claude Opus 4.5 scored 80.9%; Qwen3.6-27B scored 77.2%. Claude Opus 4.5 wins this benchmark.

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude Opus 4.5$5 input / $25 outputQwen3.6-27B$0 input / $0 outputQwen3.6-27B has the lower combined listed price.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude Opus 4.546 tok/sQwen3.6-27BNot availableA complete speed comparison is not available.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude Opus 4.51.01 sQwen3.6-27BNot availableA complete latency comparison is not available.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude Opus 4.5200KQwen3.6-27B262KQwen3.6-27B lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

AgenticClaude Opus 4.5 wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 59.3%59.3%Tie
OSWorld-VerifiedSource 66.3%Not comparable
OSWorldSource 66.3%Not comparable
Claw-EvalSource 59.6%72.4%Qwen3.6-27B leads
QwenClawBenchSource 52.3%53.4%Qwen3.6-27B leads
τ³-bench resultsSource 70.2%Not comparable
VITA-BenchSource 23.3%Not comparable
DeepPlanningSource 26.4%Not comparable
ToolathlonSource 43.5%Not comparable
MCP AtlasSource 42.3%Not comparable
MCP-TasksSource 71.8%Not comparable
WideResearchSource 76.4%Not comparable
CyberGymSource 50.6%Not comparable
τ²-bench resultsSource 86.3%94.2%Qwen3.6-27B leads
Gert LabsSource 64.23%54.84%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
JobBenchSource 32.3%Not comparable
QwenWebBenchSource 1487Not comparable
AndroidWorldSource 70.3%Not comparable
AA Agentic IndexSource 27.0%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 32.0%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 1140Not comparable
CodingQwen3.6-27B wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
SWE-bench VerifiedSource 80.9%77.2%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
LiveCodeBench v6Source 84.8%Not comparable
SWE-bench ProSource 57.1%53.5%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
SWE MultilingualSource 77.5%71.3%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
NL2RepoSource 43.2%36.2%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-SciCodeSource 47.0%39.8%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Terminal-Bench 2.0Source 59.3%Not comparable
LiveCodeBenchSource 83.9%Not comparable
AA Coding IndexSource 53.7%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
LongBench v2Source 64.4%Not comparable
AI-NeedleSource 74%Not comparable
AA-LCRSource 65.3%68.7%Qwen3.6-27B leads
CritPtSource 0.3%1.1%Qwen3.6-27B leads
KnowledgeClaude Opus 4.5 wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
GPQASource 87%87.8%Qwen3.6-27B leads
SuperGPQASource 70.6%66%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
MMLU-ProSource 89.5%86.2%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
MMLU-ReduxSource 96.6%93.5%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
C-EvalSource 92.2%91.4%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
HLESource 30.8%24%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 34.7%37.0%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 81.0%84.2%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA-HLESource 12.9%21.6%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -3.9%-19.8%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 40.7%19.2%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 75.4%48.3%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA MMLU-ProSource 88.9%Not comparable
MathQwen3.6-27B wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
AIME26Source 95.1%94.1%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
HMMT Feb 2025Source 92.9%93.8%Qwen3.6-27B leads
HMMT Nov 2025Source 93.3%90.7%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
HMMT Feb 2026Source 85.3%84.3%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
MMAnswerBenchSource 84.0%80.8%Claude Opus 4.5 leads
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 20.690%Not comparable
FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4)Source 4.167%Not comparable
Multilingual
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
MMLU-ProXSource 85.7%Not comparable
NOVA-63Source 56.7%Not comparable
MultimodalQwen3.6-27B wins
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
MMMU-ProSource 70.6%75.8%Qwen3.6-27B leads
MathVisionSource 74.3%Not comparable
CharXivSource 68.5%78.4%Qwen3.6-27B leads
VideoMMMUSource 84.4%84.4%Tie
ScreenSpot ProSource 45.7%Not comparable
V*Source 67.0%94.7%Qwen3.6-27B leads
AA-MMMU-ProSource 71.2%74.6%Qwen3.6-27B leads
Design Arena WebsiteSource 1277Not comparable
MMMUSource 82.9%Not comparable
RealWorldQASource 84.1%Not comparable
DynaMathSource 85.6%Not comparable
MStarSource 81.4%Not comparable
SimpleVQASource 56.1%Not comparable
CC-OCRSource 81.2%Not comparable
CountBenchSource 97.8%Not comparable
RefCOCO (avg)Source 92.5%Not comparable
ERQASource 62.5%Not comparable
Video-MME (with subtitle)Source 87.7%Not comparable
MLVU (M-Avg)Source 86.6%Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen3.6-27BResult
IFEvalSource 90.9%Not comparable
IFBenchSource 58%Not comparable
AA-IFBenchSource 43.0%67.6%Qwen3.6-27B leads
Frequently Asked Questions (6)

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-27B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead on BenchLM's BenchAlign leaderboard, 64.22 to 53.82. The biggest single separator in this matchup is CharXiv, where the scores are 68.5% and 78.4%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-27B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.1 versus 53.3. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-27B?

Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.5 versus 71.7. Inside this category, AA-SciCode is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-27B?

Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 89.2 versus 57.5. Inside this category, MMAnswerBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-27B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62.6 versus 59.3. Inside this category, Claw-Eval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-27B?

Qwen3.6-27B has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.7 versus 69.9. Inside this category, V* is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Self-host vs API cost

Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.

Claude Opus 4.5
API / mo$22,500
Self-host / moNot listed
Break-even
Proprietary model — self-hosting not applicable.
Qwen3.6-27B
API / mo$0
Self-host / mo$429
Break-even
Model the full break-even

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Last updated: July 21, 2026

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