Model comparison

Claude 2 vs Qwen Max

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen Max in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen Max leads 30.3 to 16.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 67.2% for Qwen Max.

Side by side

Claude 2 and Qwen Max specifications
Claude 2Qwen Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.034.7
Released2023-07-112024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—33K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.60
Output $ / M tokens—$6.40
Results tracked823

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
Aider Polyglot—21.8%
LMArena Coding—1288
HumanEval+61.6%—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts—1269
DTBench51.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13—

Math Qwen Max leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%16.1%
MATH Level 511.7%67.2%
LMArena Math—1275
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Qwen Max leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
GPQA Diamond34.7%56.1%
LMArena Expert—1248
MMLU78.5%—
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
LMArena Non-English—1263
LMArena Chinese—1254
LMArena French—1330
LMArena German—1254
LMArena Japanese—1205
LMArena Korean—1142
LMArena Russian—1274
LMArena Spanish—1290

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following—1262

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
LMArena Longer Query—1288

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen Max
LMArena Text—1282
LMArena Creative Writing—1248
LMArena Multi-Turn—1277

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen Max share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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