Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen 2.5 Max
A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) against Qwen 2.5 Max (Alibaba Cloud).
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Dynamic Hybrid Reasoner parameters
Terminal-Bench 4.0 execution (70.6%), SWE-bench Verified coding (82.4%), GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, and low-latency autonomous agentic coding at $2/$10 pricing.
Qwen 2.5 Max
Developed by Alibaba Cloud · Proprietary (~700B) parameters
Cross-lingual document extraction and structured structured output generation.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Qwen 2.5 Max |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 82.4% | 51.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 88.4% | 77.2% |
| MATH-500 | 95.2% | 89.4% |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $2.00 | $1.60 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $10.00 | $6.40 |