Head-to-head comparison across 6benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.5
77
Qwen3.7 Max
93
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.5 #11 · Qwen3.7 Max #2
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.5 only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Agentic
+7.2 difference
Coding
+7.7 difference
Reasoning
+26.0 difference
Knowledge
+5.0 difference
Multilingual
+1.3 difference
Inst. Following
+9.6 difference
Claude Opus 4.5
Qwen3.7 Max
$5 / $25
$null / $null
46 t/s
N/A
1.01s
N/A
200K
1M
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.5 only becomes the better choice if 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 77. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Qwen3.7 Max's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 90.4 against 64.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is IFBench, 58% to 79.1%.
Qwen3.7 Max 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. Qwen3.7 Max gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.
Qwen3.7 Max is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 77. The biggest single separator in this matchup is IFBench, where the scores are 58% and 79.1%.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 71.2 versus 66.2. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 73.6 versus 65.9. Inside this category, NL2Repo is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 90.4 versus 64.4. Claude Opus 4.5 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.7 versus 62.5. Inside this category, MCP Atlas is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 89 versus 79.4. Inside this category, IFBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.7 Max has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 87 versus 85.7. Inside this category, NOVA-63 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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