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Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Claude Opus 5 grades higher overall (90.0 against 65.4). Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs 89% 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 397B A17B

by Qwen · #35 of 67 overall

Coming soon · price at launch
Context
256K
Input / 1M
$0.45
Output / 1M
$3.00

Better overall

Claude Opus 5

Grade 90.0 vs 65.4

Cheaper

Qwen3.5 397B A17B

89% less, $1.09 vs $10.00 blended

Larger context

Claude Opus 5

1M vs 256K tokens

SWE-bench Verified

Claude Opus 5

96% vs 76.4%

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
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: 1,442
LMArena WebDevElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 13, 2026
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: 1,400
LMArena CodingElo-style rating · LMArena (CC BY 4.0) · Oct 15, 2026
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: 1,491
SWE-bench Verified% of issues resolved · SWE-bench · Jul 24, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: 96%v
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: 76.4%v
SWE-Bench Pro% of tasks resolved · Scale AI SWE-Bench Pro · Jul 24, 2026 · reference
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: —
Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Sep 22, 2026 · reference
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: —
Terminal-Bench 2.0% of tasks passed · Terminal-Bench · Feb 16, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: —
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: 52.5%v
LiveCodeBenchpass@1, % · LiveCodeBench · Feb 16, 2026 · reference
Claude Opus 5Claude Opus 5: —
Qwen3.5 397B A17BQwen3.5 397B A17B: 83.6%v

Claude Opus 5Qwen3.5 397B A17Bv = 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 397B A17B$210 /month

Qwen3.5 397B A17B saves you $1,790 a month at this usage, $21,480 a year.

At a glance

AttributeClaude Opus 5Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Made byAnthropicQwen
AvailabilityComing soonComing soon
Overall gradeExcellent · 90.0Strong · 65.4
Overall rank#4 of 67#35 of 67
Input price$5.00 per 1M$0.45 per 1M
Output price$25.00 per 1M$3.00 per 1M
Context window1,000,000 tokens262,144 tokens
Reasoning levelsYesYes
Reads imagesYesYes
Model IDclaude-opus-5qwen3.5-397b-a17b

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": "qwen3.5-397b-a17b", "messages": [...]}'

Questions

Is Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3.5 397B A17B better?

Claude Opus 5 grades 90.0 against 65.4 for Qwen3.5 397B A17B, from public benchmarks.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3.5 397B A17B?

Qwen3.5 397B A17B: $0.45 in and $3.00 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.