Across 16 shared benchmarks, Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on 16 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Reasoning on 0. The widest gap is Terminal-Bench Hard, where Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores 59.1 against 11.4. Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Reasoning is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($0.40 against $3.00 per million input tokens).
Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (anthropic-official, alibaba-official), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.