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Claude Sonnet 4 vs R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.
Winner summary
Claude Sonnet 4 wins on 0/0 benchmarks
Not enough overlapping benchmarks to declare a winner yet · Claude Sonnet 4 · R1 Distill Qwen 32B are still filling in scores.
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Claude Sonnet 4
#117 by perf·no signal
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
#210 by perf·no signal
Best value
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
16.0x better value than Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4
5.0 pts/$
$9.00/M
R1 Distill Qwen 32B
79.3 pts/$
$0.29/M
Vendor risk
Mixed exposure
One or more vendors flagged
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $3.00 | $15.00 | 1.0M tokens (~500 books) | $60.00 | |
| $0.29 | $0.29 | 33K tokens (~16 books) | $2.90 |