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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen3.5-27B

List-price comparison ·Claude Sonnet 4.6 details ·Qwen3.5-27B details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3.5-27B is the cheapest — 91% less than the priciest here ($85.80/mo vs $960.00/mo).

 Claude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.5-27B
Input / 1M tokens$3.00$0.195
Output / 1M tokens$15.00$1.56
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0096$0.0009
Context window1M tokens262,144 tokens
Max output128k tokens65,536 tokens
Quality score88/10076/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderAnthropicQwen

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen3.5-27B
1,000$9.60$0.858
10,000$96.00$8.58
100,000$960.00$85.80
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Claude Sonnet 4.6

Strong price-to-performance for production agents: reliable tool use, structured JSON output, and solid coding ability at roughly a fifth of Opus's cost.

Can still misstep on the hardest multi-step reasoning chains where Opus would succeed — budget for occasional escalation to a flagship model.

Qwen3.5-27B

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.