Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) against Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging) (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 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 Sonnet 5.5 Qwen 4 Max (Leaked Staging)
SWE-bench Verified 82.4% 78.6%
MMLU-Pro 88.4% 91.4%
MATH-500 95.2% 95.6%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $2.00 $1.20
Output Pricing (per 1M) $10.00 $4.80