# Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.7 Plus

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-4-6-vs-qwen3-7-plus
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 12
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 4.6 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.7 Plus 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 55.82 to 53.87.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 48 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 92.8 for Qwen3.7 Plus.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SuperGPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 95% and 71.4%.
- Qwen3.7 Plus also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 55.82 | 53.87 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 53 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $3.00 / $15.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Sonnet 4.6
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 46.7 (Supported · #54/124)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 35.5 (Supported · #78/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | 70.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.1% | 73.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| Claw-Eval | 67.8% | 62.7% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| CyberGym | 65.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 62.92% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 8.3% | 2.8% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| JobBench | 36.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 57.3% | 52.8% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| ApprenticeBench | 2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 61.8% | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | Coming soon | 72.9% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 73.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 45.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 62.3% | Coming soon |
| AndroidWorld | Coming soon | 81.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 44.8 (Supported · #52/148)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 40.6 (Estimated · #62/148)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 79.6% | 77.7% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SWE-Rebench | 60.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.1% | 70.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| 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 |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 57.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 41.1% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 51.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 62.8 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 80.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 58.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 86.00% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CritPt | Coming soon | 9.1% | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 91.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 58.7 (#45/54)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 82 (#16/54)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 77.4% | 85.9% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 79% | Coming soon |
| MathVision | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 69.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMSearch-Plus | Coming soon | 41.4% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 86.9% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 91.4% | Coming soon |
| OCRBench V2 | Coming soon | 70.7% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 51.1% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 88.0% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 87.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 55.2 (Supported · #58/181)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 53.5 (Estimated · #64/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.9% | 90.3% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 71.4% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.2% | 88.5% | Qwen3.7 Plus |
| HLE | 49% | 34.7% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 90.3% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Redux | Coming soon | 94.5% | Coming soon |
| MMMLU | Coming soon | 89.0% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 95.7 (#3/17)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 85.4% | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | Coming soon | 58.8% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 83.0% | Coming soon |
| MAXIFE | Coming soon | 88.8% | Coming soon |
| PolyMath | Coming soon | 84.0% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 48 (#89/128)
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 92.8 (#17/128)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 94.6% | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 79.1% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.7 Plus public-lane score: 64.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Qwen3.7 Plus | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| IMOAnswerBench | Coming soon | 86.0% | Coming soon |
| Apex | Coming soon | 22.7% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 34.386% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

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

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

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

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 48 for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 92.8 for Qwen3.7 Plus.

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

Claude Sonnet 4.6 currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Qwen3.7 Plus currently has 53 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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