Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 56.1 to 18.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 93.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 47.5 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2026-03-31 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3 |
| Results tracked | 49 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.8 (#130)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 27.4% | 40.7% |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1467 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 57.9% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1461 |
| WeirdML | 30.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 670.15 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Qwen3.6 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,115 |
Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Qwen3.6 Plus: 29.3 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 2.9% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1449 |
| DTBench | 56.7% | 81.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 147.65 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 60.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 17% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 59.5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 12% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LMCA | — | 33.1% |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Qwen3.6 Plus: 51.8 (#54)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | 93.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1450 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | 26.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 38.2% |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 8.3% |
Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#45)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | 88.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1454 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 44.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
| MMLU | 74.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Qwen3.6 Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.3 (#70)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1424 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1477 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | 1455 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1452 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1389 |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | 1379 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1434 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1432 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.0 (#74)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1425 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.2 (#49)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1439 |
| CL-bench | — | 20.3% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.2 (#82)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1437 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1404 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1438 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Qwen3.6 Plus?
Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?
Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen3.6 Plus share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.