Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-4B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 29.7 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3-4B specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.231.9
Released2024-10-222025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked496

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1286—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3-4B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—4%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
DTBench56.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15—
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
LMArena Math1244—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond38.1%52.3%
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
LMArena Expert1208—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1238—
LMArena Chinese1229—
LMArena French1264—
LMArena German1237—
LMArena Japanese1175—
LMArena Korean1173—
LMArena Russian1253—
LMArena Spanish1261—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1261—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1255—
LMArena Creative Writing1233—
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1265—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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