Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.
Both models stream in parallel through your own AIgateway key. Tokens, latency, and cost update as they arrive.
| Qwen 3 Max alibaba/qwen3-max | Claude Opus 4.7 anthropic/claude-opus-4.7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba | Anthropic |
| Family | Qwen | Claude 4 |
| Modality | text | text |
| Context window | 262,144 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 4,096 tok | 128,000 tok |
| Released | 2026-04-15 | 2026-04-16 |
| Input price | $1.20 /1M | $5.00 /1M |
| Output price | $6.00 /1M | $25.00 /1M |
| Cache read | — | $0.500 /1M |
| Tools | — | yes |
| Streaming | yes | yes |
| Vision | — | yes |
| JSON mode | — | yes |
| Reasoning | yes | yes |
| Prompt caching | — | yes |
Alibaba's Qwen 3 Max is a large language model with strong coding, reasoning, and multilingual capabilities, served via DashScope's OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Claude Opus 4.7 is Anthropic's most capable generally available model to date. It is highly autonomous and performs exceptionally well on long-horizon agentic work, knowledge work, vision tasks, and memory tasks.
# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
api_key="sk-aig-...",
)
# Try Qwen 3 Max
client.chat.completions.create(
model="alibaba/qwen3-max",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
# Try Claude Opus 4.7 — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
model="anthropic/claude-opus-4.7",
messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)