Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen Plus
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen Plus in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 28.4 to 23.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 67.8% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 81.1% for Qwen Plus.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 37.1 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-01-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 33K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1328 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Qwen Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1317 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 81.1% |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 63.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| LMCA | — | 24% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Qwen Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 17.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1326 |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | 65.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | 1.7% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 48.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1328 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Qwen Plus: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Qwen Plus leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1310 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1347 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1251 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1323 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1303 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1324 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen Plus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1326 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1293 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1336 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen Plus?
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen Plus better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (39.0 vs 38.9); test both on your own repository before choosing.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen Plus share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Plus has 20.