# Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3.6-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-5-sonnet-vs-qwen3-6-27b
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3.6-27B share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Qwen3.6-27B has the lower published output-token price.
- Qwen3.6-27B has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.6-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 31.93 | 52.73 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 4 | 38 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 33.9 (Supported · #133/151)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1487 | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 70.3% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 54.84% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 42.6 (Supported · #128/183)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 49% | 77.2% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 36.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 51.5 (#35/48)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.9% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MStar | Coming soon | 81.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 56.1% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.2% | Coming soon |
| CountBench | Coming soon | 97.8% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 62.5% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 87.7% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 73.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 49 (Estimated · #95/181)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 59.4% | 87.8% | Qwen3.6-27B |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 93.5% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 66% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 24% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 82.2 (#50/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3.5 Sonnet public-lane score: 25.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-27B public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.6-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 2.069% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 0.000% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 93.8% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 84.3% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.1% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3.6-27B?

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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