Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) vs Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)
A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging) (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 4 Max (Leaked Staging)
Developed by Alibaba Cloud · 1.2 Trillion (Sparse MoE) parameters
Repository-scale software engineering outscoring GPT-6 Sol, multilingual enterprise agents across 120 languages, and low-cost 1M-token processing.
| Metric | Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) | Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging) |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 81.4% | 78.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 94.2% | 91.4% |
| MATH-500 | 97.9% | 95.6% |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $5.00 | $1.20 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $25.00 | $4.80 |