Across 26 shared benchmarks, Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on 13 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Reasoning on 13. The widest gap is HMMT 2025, where Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Reasoning scores 77.4 against 15.9. 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.