Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows. It delivers state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified, with...
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen-Max
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen-Max, based on Qwen2.5, provides the best inference performance among [Qwen models](/qwen), especially for complex multi-step tasks. It's a large-scale MoE model that has been pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens and further post-train…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) | Qwen: Qwen-Max | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 1M | 33K | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.50 | $1.04 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen-Max |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $7.50 | $4.16 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen-Max |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) better than Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) and Qwen: Qwen-Max?
Input: $1.50 vs $1.04 per 1M tokens. Output: $7.50 vs $4.16 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) and Qwen: Qwen-Max support?
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) supports up to 1M tokens. Qwen: Qwen-Max supports up to 33K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch) and Qwen: Qwen-Max support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 (batch): yes. Qwen: Qwen-Max: yes.