Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen3.7 Plus Preview
Wins 5 of 8 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Math · Long documents
Wins 1 of 8 areas
Following instructions
Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3.7 Plus Preview is cheaper and better at following instructions.
Scores updated · 38 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the eight areas we test. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- CodingWriting and fixing software60Claude Opus 4.76 of 6 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own50Claude Opus 4.75 of 5 tests
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking30Claude Opus 4.73 of 3 tests
- MathCompetition and research-level math20Claude Opus 4.72 of 2 tests
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude Opus 4.71 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked01Qwen3.7 Plus Preview1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up11Even1 each
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video22Even2 each
Long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Qwen3.7 Plus Preview costs 93% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The three tests each model wins by the widest margin. Scores are out of 100.
Where Claude Opus 4.7 pulls ahead
- Unpublished advanced math problemsFrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)+35.8points ahead
- Real work tasks from 44 professionsGDPVal+29.2points ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+26.4points ahead
Where Qwen3.7 Plus Preview pulls ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+19.4points ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+14.6points ahead
- Reads and reasons about text in imagesOCRBenchv2+10.2points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 38 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude Opus 4.7
- Terminal-Bench 2.1Claude Opus 4.7 by 22.183.161+22.1
- SWE-bench VerifiedClaude Opus 4.7 by 9.987.677.7+9.9
- SciCodeClaude Opus 4.7 by 8.454.546.1+8.4
- SWE-bench ProClaude Opus 4.7 by 6.764.357.6+6.7
- SWE-bench MultilingualClaude Opus 4.7 by 4.780.575.8+4.7
- Terminal-Bench HardClaude Opus 4.7 by 4.551.547+4.5
AgentsClaude Opus 4.7
- GDPValClaude Opus 4.7 by 29.242.613.4+29.2
- τ-Bench V3 · BankingClaude Opus 4.7 by 17.134.617.5+17.1
- AA ApexAgentsClaude Opus 4.7 by 11.533.922.4+11.5
- OSWorld-VerifiedClaude Opus 4.7 by 4.77873.3+4.7
- MCP AtlasClaude Opus 4.7 by 4.177.373.2+4.1
ReasoningClaude Opus 4.7
- Humanity's Last ExamClaude Opus 4.7 by 6.742.335.6+6.7
- CritPtClaude Opus 4.7 by 2.9129.1+2.9
- GPQA DiamondClaude Opus 4.7 by 1.491.490+1.4
FactsEven
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyClaude Opus 4.7 by 26.448.922.5+26.4
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 14.657.772.3+14.6
Images and chartsEven
- OCRBenchv2Qwen3.7 Plus Preview by 10.256.967.1+10.2
- CharXiv (RQ)Claude Opus 4.7 by 5.19185.9+5.1
- LMArena · VisionClaude Opus 4.7 by 37 rating points13141277+37 rating
- MMMU-ProQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 1.778.880.5+1.7
MathClaude Opus 4.7
- FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (v2)Claude Opus 4.7 by 35.870.234.4+35.8
- HMMT Feb. 2026Claude Opus 4.7 by 193.992.9+1
Following instructionsQwen3.7 Plus Preview
- IFBenchQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 19.458.678+19.4
Other results14 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- BabyVisionQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 48.222.270.4+48.2
- AA-OmniscienceClaude Opus 4.7 by 26.227.31.1+26.2
- SimpleVQAQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 25.256.581.7+25.2
- WorldVQAQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 25.235.961.1+25.2
- AA Agentic IndexClaude Opus 4.7 by 19.839.519.7+19.8
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Opus 4.7 by 17.773.655.9+17.7
- ERQAQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 17.352.569.8+17.3
- AA IntelligenceClaude Opus 4.7 by 15.540.725.2+15.5
- Finance Agent v2Claude Opus 4.7 by 13.351.538.2+13.3
- RealWorldQAQwen3.7 Plus Preview by 11.375.686.9+11.3
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.7 Plus Preview by 4.488.693+4.4
- MMMLUClaude Opus 4.7 by 2.591.589+2.5
- Terminal-Bench 2.0tie69.470.3tie
- ScreenSpot-Pro (No tools)tie79.579tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.7 or Qwen3.7 Plus Preview?
Claude Opus 4.7 wins five of the eight areas we test: coding, agents, reasoning, math and long documents. Qwen3.7 Plus Preview wins following instructions, and costs 93% less. They are level on facts and images and charts.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Opus 4.7. It wins 6 of the 6 coding tests both models report; Qwen3.7 Plus Preview wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Plus Preview costs $0.40 and $1.60. That makes Qwen3.7 Plus Preview about 93% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 38 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 24 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 14 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.