# Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking and Qwen3 235B-A22B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-thinking-vs-qwen3-235b-a22b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3 235B-A22B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking leads overall 67 to 61.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is AIME 2024 in Mathematics, with scores of 61.3% and 40.1%.
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 6 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BFCL v3 | Coming soon | 68.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v5 | Coming soon | 35.3% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 75.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 78.2% | 62.9% | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking |
| MMMLU | 86.1% | 79.8% | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 86.1% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 75.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.2% | 83.2% | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3 235B-A22B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking | Qwen3 235B-A22B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MATH-500 | 96.2% | 91.2% | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking |
| AIME 2024 | 61.3% | 40.1% | Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking |
| AIME 2025 | Coming soon | 24.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking or Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking cover on BenchLM?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking currently has 6 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3 235B-A22B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3 235B-A22B currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Qwen3 235B-A22B vs Claude 3.7 Sonnet](/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-qwen3-235b-a22b)
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- [Qwen3 235B-A22B vs Qwen3 235B-A22B (Reasoning)](/compare/qwen3-235b-a22b-vs-qwen3-235b-a22b-reasoning)

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