# Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 38
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Claude Opus 4.5 leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 4.5 has the higher overall point estimate 53.77 to 43.54. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 31.9 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 78.3 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Gert Labs in Agentic, with scores of 64.23% and 42.65%.
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 53.77 | 43.54 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 61 | 42 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 31.2 (Estimated · #87/124)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 29.2 (Estimated · #90/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 51.5% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | 68.7% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | 52.6% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | 67.2% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | 35.6% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | 25.9% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | 26.9% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | 62.8% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | 60.1% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | 42.65% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| JobBench | 32.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 40.7 (Estimated · #62/149)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 31.8 (Estimated · #89/149)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 73.4% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | 80.4% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | 49.5% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | 67.2% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | 29.4% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 51.5% | Claude Opus 4.5 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 78.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 75.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 48.6 (#49/54)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 66.4 (#40/54)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | 80.7% | 81.7% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | 75.3% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| RealWorldQA | 77.0% | 85.3% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 87.7% | 89.9% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | 77.6% | 86.6% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | 81.4% | 82.5% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| MathVision | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| We-Math | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DynaMath | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 65.7% | 58.9% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | 78% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| CountBench | 90.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | 87.7% | 92.7% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| ERQA | 46.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | 83.7% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | 81.7% | 86.2% | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 67.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 51.1 (Estimated · #74/181)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 42.9 (Estimated · #105/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | 86% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | 64.7% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | 85.2% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | 90% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| HLE | 30.8% | 21.4% | Claude Opus 4.5 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 96.5 (#2/17)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 86.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 31.9 (#116/128)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 78.3 (#58/128)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | 58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 61.3 (#9/12)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 58.4 (#10/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | 92.7% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | 90.7% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | 89.1% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | 83.6% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | 78.9% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 34.386% | 20.351% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.878% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Claude Opus 4.5 has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 31.9 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 78.3 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 61 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.6-35B-A3B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 42 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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