Model comparison
Claude 2 vs Qwen3 32B
Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 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 1 category and Qwen3 32B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 39.7 to 9.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 39.2 |
| Released | 2023-07-11 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 8 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1358 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
Reasoning Claude 2 leads
Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 67.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 138.51 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1334 |
| LMCA | — | 17.3% |
Math Qwen3 32B leads
Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1399 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads
Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 65.7% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1362 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1357 |
| LMArena German | — | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1311 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1305 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1327 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2: —, Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1331 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2 better than Qwen3 32B?
Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.2 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen3 32B share?
4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.