Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 18.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.233.8
Released2024-10-222026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked4910

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
SciCode27.4%27.5%
Aider Polyglot28%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1286—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
CritPt0%0.3%
DTBench56.7%71.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15139.46
Chess Puzzles—12%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
LMCA—24.5%
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%61.7%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
LMArena Math1244—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond38.1%79%
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
LMArena Expert1208—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
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), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1261—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.5-9B
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 Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3.5-9B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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