Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Anthropic · Alibaba · catalog 2026-09-14

Qwen3.6 Max Preview beats Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort): cheaper ($1.131 vs $1.54/M) and at least as smart (index 28.4 vs 28.4).
Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort)Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Speed (tok/s)57.8 measured60.6 measured
Blended $/M$1.54 derived$1.131 derived
Intelligence index28.4 measured28.4 measured
TTFT (ms)124 measured352 measured
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Coding indexnot measured for both
Agentic indexnot measured for both

Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Medium Effort) card · Qwen3.6 Max Preview card · 3D observatory

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