Head-to-head comparison across 4benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Sonnet 4.5
65
Qwen3.7 Max
93
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Sonnet 4.5 unranked · Qwen3.7 Max #2
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.5 only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
Agentic
+14.4 difference
Coding
+3.6 difference
Reasoning
+76.8 difference
Knowledge
+12.2 difference
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen3.7 Max
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200K
1M
Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.5 only becomes the better choice if knowledge 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 65. 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 13.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 50% to 69.7%. Claude Sonnet 4.5 does hit back in knowledge, 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 Sonnet 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 Sonnet 4.5.
Qwen3.7 Max is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 65. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 50% and 69.7%.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.4 versus 71.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 73.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified 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 13.6. Claude Sonnet 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 55.3. Inside this category, VITA-Bench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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