Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) vs Qwen 2.5 Max
A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against Qwen 2.5 Max (Alibaba Cloud).
Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint)
Developed by Anthropic · Frontier Mixture-of-Experts Architecture parameters
Autonomous repository issue resolution (81.4% SWE-bench Verified), native 3D glTF/OBJ mesh synthesis, and sub-300ms time-to-first-token.
Qwen 2.5 Max
Developed by Alibaba Cloud · Proprietary (~700B) parameters
Cross-lingual document extraction and structured structured output generation.
| Metric | Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) | Qwen 2.5 Max |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 81.4% | 51.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 94.2% | 77.2% |
| MATH-500 | 97.9% | 89.4% |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $5.00 | $1.60 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $25.00 | $6.40 |