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Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.5 27B

Claude Opus 5 grades higher overall (90.0 against 54.6). Qwen3.5 27B costs 92% less for the same work.

Claude Opus 5

by Anthropic · #4 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
1M
Input / 1M
$5.00
Output / 1M
$25.00

Qwen3.5 27B

by Qwen · #45 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
256K
Input / 1M
$0.26
Output / 1M
$2.60

Better overall

Claude Opus 5

Grade 90.0 vs 54.6

Cheaper

Qwen3.5 27B

92% less, $0.84 vs $10.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Opus 5

1M vs 256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified

Claude Opus 5

96% vs 72.4%

Head to head

Public benchmarks. Longer is better; each value links to its source.

LMArena TextElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jul 24, 2026 · reference
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jul 24, 2026 · reference
Qwen3.5 27BQwen3.5 27B: —
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Qwen3.5 27BQwen3.5 27B: —
Terminal-Bench 2.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Feb 24, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: —
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Feb 24, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: —

Claude Opus 5Qwen3.5 27Bv = reported by the model’s maker. — = no public score yet. Arena bars span the range across every model we grade.

What it costs you

Drag to match your monthly usage.

Claude Opus 5$2,000 /month
Qwen3.5 27B$156 /month

Qwen3.5 27B saves you $1,844 a month at this usage, $22,128 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5Qwen3.5 27B
Made byAnthropicQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.0Good · 54.6
Overall rank#4 of 67#45 of 67
Input price$5.00 per 1M$0.26 per 1M
Output price$25.00 per 1M$2.60 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-opus-5qwen3.5-27b

Try both with one key

Same endpoint, same key, both hosted in the USA. Change one word to switch models, in Claude Code, Cursor, Cline or your own code.

Get your API key
# Ask either model the same thing
curl https://fullsendai.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FULLSEND_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"model": "claude-opus-5", "messages": [...]}'

# …then swap one word
  -d '{"model": "qwen3.5-27b", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3.5 27B better?

Claude Opus 5 grades 90.0 against 54.6 for Qwen3.5 27B, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3.5 27B?

Qwen3.5 27B: $0.26 in and $2.60 out per million tokens, against $5.00 and $25.00 through FullsendAI.

Which has the larger context window?

Claude Opus 5, with 1,000,000 tokens.

Can I use both with one API key?

Yes, once they launch: both are coming soon, at the prices shown, and both will use the same FullsendAI key.

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Scores: LMArena (CC BY 4.0), SWE-bench, Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench, LiveCodeBench, and model makers’ published results where marked v. Prices are FullsendAI’s, per million tokens. Data as of Oct 28, 2026.