# Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-4-5-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 20
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Opus 4.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Qwen3.7 Max leads overall 63.46 to 55.66.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 30.6 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 42.3% and 76.4%.
- Qwen3.7 Max is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.7 Max also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 55.66 | 63.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 31.1 (Estimated · #80/119)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 39.3 (Supported · #60/119)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 69.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| OSWorld-Verified | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld | 66.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 59.6% | 65.2% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| QwenClawBench | 52.3% | 64.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| τ³-bench results | 70.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | 23.3% | 47.9% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| DeepPlanning | 26.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 42.3% | 76.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MCP-Tasks | 71.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 76.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 50.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 64.23% | 64.27% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| JobBench | 32.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.7% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 61.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 42.6 (Estimated · #59/144)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 45.4 (Supported · #54/144)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 80.4% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 84.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 57.1% | 60.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE Multilingual | 77.5% | 78.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| NL2Repo | 43.2% | 47.2% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 91.6% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| OpenHarmony Bench | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 73.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 76.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 64.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 24.5 (#47/49)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MathVision | 74.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | 68.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 84.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 45.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| V* | 67.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 49.6 (Estimated · #65/171)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #41/171)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SuperGPQA | 70.6% | 73.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.5% | 89.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Redux | 96.6% | 95% | Claude Opus 4.5 |
| C-Eval | 92.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.8% | 41.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 90.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Max
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 96.5 (#2/16)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/16)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 85.7% | 87% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| NOVA-63 | 56.7% | 59.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Max
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 30.6 (#115/125)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 89.2 (#17/125)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 90.9% | 94.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| IFBench | 58% | 79.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 4.5 public-lane score: 57.9 (#6/7)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 81.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 92.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 85.3% | 97.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMAnswerBench | 84.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 20.690% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 30.6 for Claude Opus 4.5 and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Max.

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

Claude Opus 4.5 currently has 45 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.7 Max currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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