Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max, at $8.85 per million tokens against $16 for Claude Sonnet 5, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.

Where is each one cheapest?

Claude Sonnet 5: nobody goes below the maker's own price with a reason we can point at, so $16 is the number to beat. Qwen3.7 Max: $8.85 at Nous Portal.

Can I buy both from one provider?

Yes. 12 providers sell both: Nous Portal, Atlas Cloud, Impossibl, LLMTR, NanoGPT, Vercel AI Gateway, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Nous Portal.

Which holds more context?

Both hold 1M tokens in one call.

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen3.7 Max.

model vs model · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

Qwen3.7 Max takes 3 of 5 rounds against Claude Sonnet 5. It is also the cheaper of the two to run, at $8.85 per million tokens against $16.

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 5

$16/M tokens

Anthropic list price, nothing below it is accounted for · $1.80 per 1,000 pages

1M context · tool calling · reads images

Alibaba Cloudwins 3 rounds

Qwen3.7 Max

$8.85/M tokens

cheapest we can explain, at Nous Portal · $1.15 per 1,000 pages

1M context · tool calling

Nous Portal ↗

List price in (lower wins)

$2/M

$2.50/M

List price out (lower wins)

$10/M

$7.50/M

Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)

none below list

$8.85/M at Nous Portal

Standard price (lower wins)

$16/M

$15/M

Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)

$1.80

$1.15

Context

1M tokens

Open weights

Tool calling

yes

Structured output

yes

not stated

Reads images

yes

Reasoning

yes

Released

29 Jun 2026

21 May 2026

Providers selling it

Price we measure against

the maker's own

Trains on your prompts (no is better)

no provider to check

not stated

Providers selling both · 12

Nous Portal$16 / $8.85
Atlas Cloud$16 / $15
Impossibl$16 / $15
LLMTR$16 / $15
NanoGPT$16 / $15
Vercel AI Gateway$16 / $15
ZenMux$16 / $15
NEAR AI Cloud$16 / $15.90

Claude Sonnet 5 then Qwen3.7 Max, per million tokens · showing the 8 cheapest of 12

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What moved in the last seven days

Claude Sonnet 5Nous Portal$1.60 / $8 $2 / $1025% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
Qwen3.7 MaxKilo Gateway$1.25 / $3.75 $1.48 / $4.4318% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
Qwen3.7 MaxNous Portal$1.18 / $3.54 $1.48 / $4.4325% dearer · 16 Sept 2026
Claude Sonnet 5Cortecs$2.30 / $11.51 $2.28 / $11.391.0% cheaper · 11 Sept 2026
Qwen3.7 MaxOfox$2.50 / $7.50 $1.71 / $5.1432% cheaper · 11 Sept 2026
Qwen3.7 MaxZenifra$12.90 / $38.50 $8.50 / $25.5034% cheaper · 11 Sept 2026

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen3.7 Max?: Qwen3.7 Max, at $8.85 per million tokens against $16 for Claude Sonnet 5, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.
Where is each one cheapest?: Claude Sonnet 5: nobody goes below the maker's own price with a reason we can point at, so $16 is the number to beat. Qwen3.7 Max: $8.85 at Nous Portal.
Can I buy both from one provider?: Yes. 12 providers sell both: Nous Portal, Atlas Cloud, Impossibl, LLMTR, NanoGPT, Vercel AI Gateway, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is Nous Portal.
Which holds more context?: Both hold 1M tokens in one call.

Prices exclude tax and are per million tokens, read 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own catalog. The standard price blends three parts input to one part output; a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.