Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.7 Max
Pricing & Specs

Anthropic vs Qwen (Alibaba), side by side from a live registry. Specs below, then benchmark both on your own task.

$25
Claude Opus 5 output / 1M
$3.75
Qwen3.7 Max output / 1M
1M / 1M
context windows

TL;DR: On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Qwen3.7 Max is about 5.6x cheaper than Claude Opus 5. But per-token price is not cost per result: a cheaper model that needs more tokens, retries, or hand-holding can end up more expensive on your workload. The specs below are facts; which one is better at YOUR task is measurable, not guessable.

API Pricing: Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.7 Max

TokensClaude Opus 5Qwen3.7 Max
Input$5 / 1M$1.25 / 1M
Output$25 / 1M$3.75 / 1M
Cached input$0.5 / 1M$0.13 / 1M

What that means in practice (1K input + 500 output tokens)

1x One typical task: $0.0175 on Claude Opus 5 vs $0.0031 on Qwen3.7 Max
1K 1,000 runs: $17.50 vs $3.12
💡 Real cost depends on how verbose each model is on YOUR prompts. Benchmark to measure actual tokens, not estimates.

Specs Compared

SpecClaude Opus 5Qwen3.7 Max
Context window1M tokens1M tokens
Max output tokens128K tokens-
Input modalitiestext, imagetext
Knowledge cutoff--
Latency (measured)--
Reasoning modelYesYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
JSON modeYesYes
Prompt cachingYesYes

When to Choose Which

High volume on a budget: start with Qwen3.7 Max; only pay for Claude Opus 5 if the benchmark shows a quality gap that matters.
Everything else: the honest answer is to benchmark both on your actual task. Quality differences are task-specific and shift with every release.

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Claude Opus 5 costs $5/$25 per 1M input/output tokens; Qwen3.7 Max costs $1.25/$3.75. On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Qwen3.7 Max is about 5.6x cheaper than Claude Opus 5.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Claude Opus 5 has a 1M-token context window; Qwen3.7 Max has 1M tokens.

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Qwen3.7 Max?

It depends on the task. Generic leaderboards won't tell you which one wins on YOUR workload. OpenMark lets you benchmark Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3.7 Max head to head on your own task with real API calls, no API keys needed, free tier available.

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