Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
Flagship reasoning model for complex multi-step tasks.
No shared agent demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 76.5). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Qwen3 Max Thinking has a lower blended cost. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output. Qwen3 Max Thinking: $0.78 input / $3.90 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Claude Sonnet 5 supports 1M tokens vs Qwen3 Max Thinking at 262K tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but Qwen3 Max Thinking does not.
Key differences: Qwen3 Max Thinking 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 Max Thinking for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.