Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

Comparison of the Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Qwen3.6 35B A3B releases: 5 and 2 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 7 models.

Model Playground

Releases compared


	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max)	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (xhigh)	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (high)	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (medium)	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low)	Qwen3.6 35B A3B	Qwen3.6 35B A3B (non-reasoning)
Intelligence Index	55	50	42	31	26	--	--
Finance & Accounting	56	49	44	41	36	--	--
Strategy & Ops	58	54	51	47	42	--	--
Legal	52	47	44	39	37	--	--
Healthcare & Medical	54	47	44	40	37	--	--
Engineering	58	54	46	37	33	--	--
Economics	54	48	45	39	35	--	--
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1813	1742	1634	1439	1268	713	--
AutomationBench-AA	71.8%	65.5%	59.4%	54.9%	49.4%	5.2%	--
Terminal-Bench 4.0	63.6%	57.1%	43.9%	29.8%	20.7%	0.0%	--
FrontierCode 2.0	41.7%	35.6%	25.7%	11.0%	7.1%	--	--
AA-Omniscience v1.1	30	21	19	19	20	--	--
GDP.pdf	25.8%	24.6%	25.2%	20.2%	16.0%	6.6%	--
HLE-Diamond	53.3%	44.1%	33.8%	23.8%	20.6%	6.9%	--
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	59.0%	57.5%	51.5%	33.5%	26.0%	--	--
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	53.3%	52.4%	34.3%	16.2%	10.5%	--	--

Cost per TaskUSD	$10.02	$4.09	$1.64	$0.78	$0.51	--	--
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$0.375	$0.375
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$10.00	$2.25	$2.25
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	--	--
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$2.50	$2.50	$2.50	$2.50	$2.50	--	--

Time per TaskMinutes	31.5	15.1	6.9	3.6	2.6	--	--
Output Speedtok/s	151	135	141	143	133	120	105
Time to First Answer Tokens	283.09	30.99	12.06	5.21	3.44	37.86	3.01
Time to First Tokens	283.09	30.99	12.06	5.21	3.44	3.02	3.01
End-to-End TimeMean of Single-Request Workloads (s)	564.57	91.21	54.47	33.61	29.60	51.85	20.04

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	262k	262k
Creator	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Alibaba	Alibaba
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text, image, and video
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers						+5	+4

Updated

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

No publicly available API

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

No publicly available API

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Output tokens divided by end-to-end output speed (minutes per Intelligence Index task) · Speed at the model's own endpoint or the median across providers · Lower is better

No publicly available API

The weighted average time (minutes) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task: output tokens per task divided by output speed, weighted by each benchmark's weight in the Intelligence Index.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes

Each axis is one of 8 personality indexes: the mean of its traits’ Elo z-scores, percentile ranked from 1 to 100 across all models evaluated in the benchmark

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Time per Task

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time Period

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes