Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 39.0 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.238.8
Released2024-10-222026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked4913

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
Aider Polyglot28%—
SciCode27.4%—
WeirdML30.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
LMArena Coding1286—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—
ALE-Bench—326.4

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
BALROG19.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
DTBench56.7%77.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1251—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
LMCA—31%
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%10.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
LMArena Math1244—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond38.1%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Confabulations36.7%—
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
LMArena Expert1208—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
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), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—
LMArena Instruction Following1241—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1261—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
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 Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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