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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3.5-9B

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Winner summary

Qwen3.5-9B wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · knowledge · math.

Category leads
general·Qwen3.5-9Bknowledge·Qwen3.5-9Bmath·Qwen3.5-9B
Hype vs Reality
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
#190 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.5-9B
#201 by perf·#2 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
n/a
no price
Qwen3.5-9B
308.0 pts/$
$0.13/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Claude 3.5 SonnetQwen3.5-9B
Dtbench
Qwen3.5-9B leads by +5.7
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
46.3
Qwen3.5-9B
52.0
GPQA diamond
Qwen3.5-9B leads by +33.3
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
38.7
Qwen3.5-9B
72.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Qwen3.5-9B leads by +55.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
6.4
Qwen3.5-9B
61.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen3.5-9B
Dtbench
46.352.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
38.772.0
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
6.461.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude 3.5 Sonnet————
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.5-9B$0.10$0.15262K tokens (~131 books)$1.13