Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.6
86
Qwen3.7 Max
84
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.6 #11 · Qwen3.7 Max #4
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.7 Max only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Agentic
+2.9 difference
Coding
+9.2 difference
Knowledge
+5.0 difference
Claude Opus 4.6
Qwen3.7 Max
$5 / $25
$null / $null
40 t/s
N/A
1.78s
N/A
1M
1M
Pick Claude Opus 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.7 Max only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the cleaner provisional overall profile here, landing at 86 versus 84. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.
Claude Opus 4.6's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 76.2 against 71.2. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SuperGPQA, 95% to 73.6%. Qwen3.7 Max does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.7 Max is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.6 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.
Claude Opus 4.6 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 86 to 84. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SuperGPQA, where the scores are 95% and 73.6%.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 76.2 versus 71.2. Inside this category, AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate 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 64.4. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 72.6 versus 69.7. Inside this category, Tau2-Telecom is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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