# Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-qwen3-6-35b-a3b
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Sonnet 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Sonnet 5 leads overall 69.68 to 43.85.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 77.4 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 50 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE in Knowledge, with scores of 57.4% and 21.4%.
- Claude Sonnet 5 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 69.68 | 43.85 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 26 | 41 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 65.9 (Supported · #11/154)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 40.2 (Estimated · #119/154)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 80.4% | 51.5% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| BrowseComp | 84.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 57.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 81.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 74.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 16% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 68.7% | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| QwenWebBench | Coming soon | 1397 | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | Coming soon | 67.2% | Coming soon |
| VITA-Bench | Coming soon | 35.6% | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | Coming soon | 25.9% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 26.9% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 62.8% | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | Coming soon | 60.1% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 42.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 63.9 (Supported · #13/154)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 45 (Estimated · #93/154)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% | 73.4% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 63.2% | 49.5% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 78.3% | 67.2% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| SWE Multimodal | 28.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 80.4% | 51.5% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 61.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 82.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | 34.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 29.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 77.4 (#14/48)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 50 (#37/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 88.3% | 78% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU | Coming soon | 81.7% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 75.3% | Coming soon |
| RealWorldQA | Coming soon | 85.3% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 58.9% | Coming soon |
| CC-OCR | Coming soon | 81.9% | Coming soon |
| AI2D_TEST | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |
| RefCOCO (avg) | Coming soon | 92.0% | Coming soon |
| ODINW13 | Coming soon | 50.8% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (with subtitle) | Coming soon | 86.6% | Coming soon |
| Video-MME (w/o subtitle) | Coming soon | 82.5% | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | Coming soon | 83.7% | Coming soon |
| MLVU (M-Avg) | Coming soon | 86.2% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 77.4 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 70.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: 66.5 (Supported · #20/184)
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 44.3 (Estimated · #118/184)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 57.4% | 21.4% | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| HLE w/o tools | 43.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 31.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 80.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 85.2% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| C-Eval | Coming soon | 90% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 86% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 76.8 (#58/124)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Qwen3.6-35B-A3B public-lane score: 70.7 (Unranked · 5 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HMMT Feb 2025 | Coming soon | 90.7% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | Coming soon | 83.6% | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 92.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

Claude Sonnet 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen3.6-35B-A3B?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 77.4 for Claude Sonnet 5 and 50 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Sonnet 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Sonnet 5 currently has 26 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B currently has 41 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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