Claude Opus 5.5 vs Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).
Claude Opus 5.5
Yes. SOTA in Reasoning (tied), Coding (tied), Coding › Agentic (tied), Coding › Web dev, Long context (tied), and Factuality (tied).
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
It used to be. Was SOTA in General LLM.
| Category | Claude Opus 5.5 | Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 |
|---|---|---|
| General LLM | #2 · Near-SOTA · General LLM Margin 1.0638297872340416 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 | #117 · #117 in General LLM Margin 62.234042553191486 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Reasoning | #1 · Co-SOTA · Reasoning Margin 0 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 | #105 · Was SOTA · Reasoning Margin 56.38297872340426 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Math | #— · Not enough data Margin — LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 | #— · Not enough data Margin — LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Science | #31 · #31 in Science Margin — Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026 | — |
| Coding | #1 · Co-SOTA · Coding Margin 0 Terminal-Bench Harbor Hub · Oct 6, 2026 | #— · Not enough data Margin — LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Coding › Agentic | #1 · Co-SOTA · Coding › Agentic Margin 0 Terminal-Bench Harbor Hub · Oct 6, 2026 | — |
| Coding › Web dev | #1 · SOTA · Coding › Web dev Margin 0 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 | — |
| Long context | #1 · Co-SOTA · Long context Margin 0 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 | #113 · #113 in Long context Margin 60.1063829787234 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Vision | #4 · Near-SOTA · Vision Margin 13.15789473684211 Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026 | — |
| Factuality | #1 · Co-SOTA · Factuality Margin 0 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 | #104 · #104 in Factuality Margin 61.04651162790697 LMArena leaderboard dataset · Oct 13, 2026 |
| Abstraction (ARC) | #1 · #1 in Abstraction (ARC) Margin — Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Sep 22, 2026 | #82 · #82 in Abstraction (ARC) Margin — Epoch AI benchmarking hub · Jul 25, 2025 |
Claude Opus 5.5: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.
Claude Opus 5.5: closed weights.
Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507: open weights.
General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in General LLM at #2 against #117.
Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in Reasoning at #1 against #105.
Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in Long context at #1 against #113.
Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in Factuality at #1 against #104.
Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #82.
Claude Opus 5.5 · Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507
Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507?
As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in 5 of 5 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).
Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 for General LLM?
As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in General LLM at #2 against #117.
Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 for Reasoning?
As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in Reasoning at #1 against #105.
Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 for Long context?
As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 leads Qwen3 235B A22b Instruct 2507 in Long context at #1 against #113.