Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
Qwen's flagship 235B MoE model with 22B active parameters.
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Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 72.3). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Qwen3 235B A22B has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. Qwen3 235B A22B: $0.45 input / $1.82 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs Qwen3 235B A22B at 131K tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but Qwen3 235B A22B does not.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 has a notably higher capability index (7.8 point gap); Qwen3 235B A22B is significantly cheaper; only Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision input. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen3 235B A22B for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.