# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.7 Max

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Max across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-qwen3-7-max
- Last updated: October 2, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 13
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.7 Max if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Sonnet 4.6 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 56.88.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 46.6 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Max.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SuperGPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 95% and 73.6%.
- 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 Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 56.88 | 63.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 26 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 43.4 (Supported · #53/119)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 39.3 (Supported · #60/119)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | 69.7% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 67.8% | 65.2% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| CyberGym | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 62.92% | 64.27% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 36.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 57.3% | 61.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| ApprenticeBench | 2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 64.3% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 75.0% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 76.4% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 47.9% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 18.7% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 47.1 (Supported · #48/144)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 45.4 (Supported · #54/144)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | 80.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-Rebench | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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% | 87.1% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 77.4% | 68.8% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 78.3% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 47.2% | Coming soon |
| 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 69.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 76.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 13.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 55.1 (#34/49)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Qwen3.7 Max
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 53.5 (Supported · #57/171)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 59.8 (Supported · #41/171)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.9% | 92.4% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 73.6% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 89.6% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| HLE | 49% | 41.4% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | 90.2% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.3% | 89.3% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 92.4% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 100 (#1/16)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 87% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 89.2% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 86.5% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.6 (#87/125)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 89.2 (#17/125)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Max public-lane score: 81.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Max | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 32.400% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 8.300% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 97.1% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 90.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 44.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen3.7 Max?

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

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen3.7 Max?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 46.6 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 89.2 for Qwen3.7 Max.

### 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 Qwen3.7 Max cover on BenchLM?

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

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