Claude 4.6 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6-27B
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 Claude 4.6 SonnetAnthropic |  Qwen3.6-27BAlibaba | |
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| Vendor | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Family | Claude | Qwen |
| Release date | 2026-02-17 | 2026-04-22 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Parameters | — | 27B (dense) |
| Modality | text, vision | text, vision, video |
| License | proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
| Source | proprietary | open weights |
| Description | Anthropic's mid-tier flagship — released 12 days after Opus 4.6 and matching most of its capabilities at ~40% the API cost ($3/$15 per 1M tokens). 1M-token context. | Alibaba's first dense open-weight in the 3.6 family. Strong agentic-coding scores (77.2 SWE-bench Verified, matching Claude 4.5 Opus on Terminal-Bench 2.0). Supports 201 languages and multimodal text/image/video input. |
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| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85.4% | 78.9% |
| GPQA-D | 85.8% | — |
| HumanEval | 95.9% | 91.5% |
| Aider | 83.6% | 70.2% |
| AIME-25 | 87.4% | — |
| LiveCB | 73.8% | — |
| MMMU | — | 70.3% |
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