Why is this comparison indexable?

It has 4 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.

Are missing metrics invented?

No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

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Data points: 122

Key Takeaways

The readout for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview, before the detailed comparison sheet.

Decision read

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6 currently has the stronger profile, with verified wins split 4 to 0.

Evidence depth

122 data points

Includes 28 benchmark rows, 1 audit samples, and 7 provider examples.

Selection signal

Start with Claude Opus 4.6

The charts below split 36 high-signal samples across speed, scores, and audit health.

Change comparison

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Model compare Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview claude-opus-4-6-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview	Model A Claude Opus 4.6	Model B Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Overall leader	Leading	Contender
Verified metric wins	4 wins	0 wins
Where it leads	Cheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverage, Recent tests

Model compare

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

claude-opus-4-6-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview

Model A

Claude Opus 4.6

Model B

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Overall leader

Leading

Contender

Verified metric wins

4 wins

0 wins

Where it leads

Cheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverage, Recent tests

Benchmark score comparison

Third-party benchmark profile synced into LMSpeed; only metrics available for both models are shown.

Category performance

Compare benchmark category scores on a 0-100 scale. Select a category to inspect the gap.

Model A coverage: 7 / 8
Model B coverage: 5 / 8
Shared: 5 shared categories

Claude Opus 4.6Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Avg. score

Claude Opus 4.6

64.1

Avg. score

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

60.1

Selected category

Instruction following

Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads by 32.0

Professional benchmark details

Metric-level scores with benchmark source, rank depth, confidence, error, and evaluation date where available.

Group

Aggregateverified

BenchLM overall score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

84.0

Rank #5/96 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+14.0

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

70.0

Rank #24/96 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Performanceverified

Time to first answer token

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

2.11 s

Rank #51/113 · confidence 4

+48.83 s

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

50.93 s

Rank #101/113 · confidence 4

Performanceverified

Time to first token

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

2.11 s

Rank #84/113 · confidence 4

+0.19 s

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

2.29 s

Rank #85/113 · confidence 4

Performanceverified

Output speed

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

47.6 tok/s

Rank #93/113 · confidence 4

+6.5 tok/s

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

41.1 tok/s

Rank #98/113 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Blended price

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

$10.00/M

Rank #125/138 · confidence 4

+$7.08/M

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

$2.92/M

Rank #97/138 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Output price

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

$25.00/M

Rank #125/138 · confidence 4

+$17.20/M

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

$7.80/M

Rank #97/138 · confidence 4

Pricingverified

Input price

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

$5.00/M

Rank #124/138 · confidence 4

+$3.70/M

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

$1.30/M

Rank #100/138 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

AA-LCR

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

58.3

Rank #44/67 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+11.4

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

69.7

Rank #12/67 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Reasoningverified

GPQA

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

84.0%

Rank #37/152 · confidence 4

+4.8%

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

88.8%

Rank #14/152 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

HLE

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

18.6%

Rank #46/150 · confidence 4

+10.3%

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

28.9%

Rank #17/150 · confidence 4

Reasoningverified

CritPt

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

2.8

Rank #27/54 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+0.9

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

3.7

Rank #24/54 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Codingverified

BenchLM Coding score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

82.4

Rank #9/83 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+12.6

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

69.8

Rank #32/83 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Codingverified

SWE-bench Pro

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

53.4

Rank #20/25 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+3.9

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

57.3

Rank #9/25 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Codingverified

Terminal-Bench Hard

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

48.5

Rank #9/69 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+4.6

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

43.9

Rank #14/69 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Codingverified

SciCode

SourceClaude Opus 4.6 (Non-reasoning, High Effort)

Claude Opus 4.6

45.7%

Rank #22/149 · confidence 4

+1.2%

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

46.9%

Rank #16/149 · confidence 4

Codingverified

AA-SciCode

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

45.7

Rank #23/74 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+1.2

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

46.9

Rank #19/74 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

SuperGPQA

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

95.0

Rank #1/14 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+21.1

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

73.9

Rank #3/14 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

BenchLM Knowledge score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

91.6

Rank #2/79 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+28.2

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

63.4

Rank #36/79 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

AA-Omniscience Index

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

3.5

Rank #14/18 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+6.7

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

10.2

Rank #6/18 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

45.2

Rank #8/68 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+7.5

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

37.7

Rank #20/68 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

AA-GPQA Diamond

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

84.0

Rank #37/74 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+4.8

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

88.8

Rank #13/74 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

AA-HLE

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

18.6

Rank #40/74 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+10.3

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

28.9

Rank #16/74 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

37.8

Rank #25/77 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+2.2

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

40.0

Rank #16/77 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Knowledgeverified

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

76.0

Rank #35/68 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+31.8

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

44.2

Rank #56/68 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Instruction followingverified

AA-IFBench

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

44.6

Rank #47/70 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+32.0

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

76.6

Rank #7/70 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Agentsverified

Tau2-Telecom

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

84.8

Rank #31/68 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+11.1

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

winner

95.9

Rank #8/68 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Agentsverified

BenchLM Agentic score

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

winner

80.1

Rank #12/81 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

+11.2

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

68.9

Rank #24/81 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

Agentsverified

Terminal-Bench 2.0

SourceClaude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4.6

65.4

Rank #12/33 · confidence 4 · eval date 2026-02-01

0.0

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

65.4

Rank #12/33 · confidence 2 · eval date 2026-04-20

API audit comparison

Latest completed audits from shared providers, with four safety and integrity score groups plus report links.

Provider	Claude Opus 4.6	Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Winner: Claude Opus 4.6	Claude Opus 4.6 claude-opus-4-6 Audit score 78 70

Provider examples

Speed aggregates and input/output pricing share each provider row for real API selection and migration cost checks.

Provider	Claude Opus 4.6	Qwen3.6 Max Preview
0 tests	Claude Opus 4.6 speed / latency N/A / N/A input / output No data

When to choose each model

This report only uses LMSpeed data for Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen3.6 Max Preview: pricing, speed aggregates, third-party benchmark scores, and shared provider samples.

Guidance	Claude Opus 4.6	Qwen3.6 Max Preview
When to choose each model	Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Opus 4.6 is stronger when you prioritize Cheapest input price, Free providers, Provider coverage, Recent tests.	Qwen3.6 Max Preview Qwen3.6 Max Preview does not clearly lead on the verified metrics here, so check provider-specific pricing before choosing.

FAQ

TL;DR: Claude Opus 4.6 leads across 122 verifiable data points, including pricing, speed, latency, benchmarks, and provider examples.

Why is this comparison indexable?: It has 4 verifiable comparison points, and both models have pricing or benchmark data.
Are missing metrics invented?: No. Metrics without LMSpeed data are omitted from this report.

Continue from Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview into nearby model comparisons with enough verified LMSpeed data.

Model metadata	Claude Opus 4.6 exposes 1M tokens; notable signals: Text input, Image input, File input, Text output.	Qwen3.6 Max Preview exposes 262.1K tokens; notable signals: Text input, Text output, Tool calling, Structured outputs.
Developer	Anthropic	Qwen
Context window	1M tokens	262.1K tokens
Max output	128K tokens	65.5K tokens
Released	Feb 2026	No data
Modalities	Input TextImageFile Output Text	Input Text Output Text
Features	Text inputImage inputFile inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning	Text inputText outputTool callingStructured outputsJSON modeReasoning
Parameters	No data	No data
Tokenizer	Claude	Qwen
Knowledge cutoff	No data	No data
OpenRouter ID	anthropic/claude-opus-4.6	qwen/qwen3.6-max-preview
References	No data	No data

Key Takeaways

Change comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Claude Opus 4.6

Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Benchmark score comparison

Category performance

Professional benchmark details

BenchLM overall score

Time to first answer token

Time to first token

Output speed

Blended price

Output price

Input price

AA-LCR

GPQA

HLE

CritPt

BenchLM Coding score

SWE-bench Pro

Terminal-Bench Hard

SciCode

AA-SciCode

SuperGPQA

BenchLM Knowledge score

AA-Omniscience Index

AA-Omniscience Accuracy

AA-GPQA Diamond

AA-HLE

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

AA-Omniscience Hallucination Rate

AA-IFBench

Tau2-Telecom

BenchLM Agentic score

Terminal-Bench 2.0

API audit comparison

Provider examples

When to choose each model

FAQ

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