Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B
Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 3 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 37.4 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
- Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 38.9 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2025-04-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 41K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.12 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 33.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 29.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1416 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41.4% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 69.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 139.63 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1398 |
| LMCA | — | 22.4% |
Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 70.3% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 47.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1394 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 70.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1396 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1433 |
| LMArena French | — | 1418 |
| LMArena German | — | 1380 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1337 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1331 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1370 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1404 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1363 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1379 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1317 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1378 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?
Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.