Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 2 vs Qwen3 235B-A22B

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

Qwen3 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.5

Rank #91 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 235B-A22B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 235B-A22B leads 50.4 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 86.7% for Qwen3 235B-A22B.
  • Qwen3 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.043.5
Released2023-07-112025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked849

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 44.3 (#75)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
Aider Polyglot—59.6%
SciCode—42.4%
WeirdML—41%
LMArena Coding—1445
HumanEval+61.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 33.9 (#51)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—52.1%
Vending-Bench 2—-11.34

Reasoning Claude 2 leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 15.7 (#311)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
DTBench51.9%80.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13143.85
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
SimpleBench—31%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—69.4%
ARC-AGI-1—11%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—12%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1433
Mystery Game Puzzles—9%
LMCA—29.3%
ForecastBench—59.7

Math Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 50.4 (#57)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%86.7%
MATH Level 511.7%68.9%
Omni-MATH—71.8%
LMArena Math—1432
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—8.5%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3 235B-A22B leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Qwen3 235B-A22B: 49.6 (#73)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
GPQA Diamond34.7%80.1%
SimpleQA Verified—40.4%
MMLU-Pro—84.4%
Confabulations—15.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.3%
GPQA (HELM)—72.7%
LMArena Expert—1463
MMLU78.5%—
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 52.3 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English—1409
LMArena Chinese—1481
LMArena French—1445
LMArena German—1433
LMArena Japanese—1399
LMArena Korean—1391
LMArena Russian—1411
LMArena Spanish—1430

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 72.6 (#136)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
IFEval—83.5%
LMArena Instruction Following—1408

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 46.1 (#26)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
Fiction.LiveBench—75%
LMArena Longer Query—1426

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Qwen3 235B-A22B: 59.6 (#108)

BenchmarkClaude 2Qwen3 235B-A22B
LMArena Text—1419
LMArena Creative Writing—1384
Short-Story Creative Writing—83%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1366
WildBench—86.6%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1432

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than Qwen3 235B-A22B?

Qwen3 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.5 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen3 235B-A22B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 235B-A22B has 49.

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