Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) vs Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) by Anthropic or Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)
Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) vs Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback): 54.3% less intelligence, 11.5% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 560.7% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) | Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 46.8 | 21.4 | −54.3% Qwen3.6 27B (Reasonin… is 54.3% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $1,027.40 | $1,145.36 | +11.5% Qwen3.6 27B (Reasonin… is 11.5% more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 16.86s | 111.40s | +560.7% Qwen3.6 27B (Reasonin… is 560.7% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $2.00 / $10.0 | $0.60 / $3.60 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image, Video |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
- Qwen3.6 27B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
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