Anthropic's Claude and Alibaba's Qwen, compared through their current models on the Respan Index. The strongest Claude model today is Claude Opus 5.5 (#1 on the Respan Index, 72.4); the strongest Qwen model is Qwen3.8-Max (#22, 50.3). Claude's best models lead in coding, agents, reasoning, knowledge and human preference.
| Category | Claude | Qwen |
|---|---|---|
| coding | Claude Opus 5.5 72.8 | Qwen3.8-Max 38.9 |
| agents | Claude Sonnet 5.5 78.1 | Qwen3.8-Max 68.0 |
| reasoning | Claude Opus 5.5 75.5 | Qwen3.8-Max 40.8 |
| knowledge | Claude Fable 5 72.4 | Qwen3.7-Max 55.2 |
| human preference | Claude Opus 5.5 60.6 | Qwen3.8-Max |
Each family's highest Respan Index category score; the higher one is bold. * Estimated: no published scores in that category. How the Respan Index works
Respan Index rank and score, blended list price per 1M tokens.
Respan Index rank and score, blended list price per 1M tokens.
The cheapest ranked Claude model is Claude Haiku 4.5 at $2 per 1M tokens blended; the cheapest Qwen model is Qwen3.5-Flash at $0.175.