# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.5-27B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.5-27B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-qwen3-5-27b
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 8
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads overall 56.28 to 43.76.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 46.6 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 91.5 for Qwen3.5-27B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SuperGPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 95% and 65.6%.
- Qwen3.5-27B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Qwen3.5-27B also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 56.28 | 43.76 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 26 | 16 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 43.1 (Supported · #51/117)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 32.5 (Estimated · #74/117)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | 41.6% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.1% | 56.2% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| Claw-Eval | 67.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 62.92% | 39.41% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 57.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 61% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.9 (Supported · #46/142)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 32.4 (Estimated · #86/142)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | 72.4% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SWE-Rebench | 60.7% | 58.9% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| React Native Evals | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 51.48% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | 48.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 24.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 52.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 55.1 (#35/50)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 71.6 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 82.3% | Coming soon |
| MMVU | Coming soon | 73.3% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| V* | Coming soon | 93.7% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 53.1 (Supported · #53/168)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 42.3 (Supported · #87/168)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.9% | 85.5% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 65.6% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 86.1% | Qwen3.5-27B |
| HLE | 49% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 36.8 (#9/12)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 82.2% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.6 (#88/124)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: 91.5 (#13/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.5-27B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.5-27B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 32.400% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 8.300% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3.5-27B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.5-27B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 46.6 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 91.5 for Qwen3.5-27B.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 4.6 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently has 26 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen3.5-27B cover on BenchLM?

Qwen3.5-27B currently has 16 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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