Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen Turbo

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Qwen Turbo Alibaba (Qwen)

27.1

Rank #335 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen Turbo in 0 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 28.6 to 22.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 55.3% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 41.8% for Qwen Turbo.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen Turbo specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.627.1
Released2024-06-202024-11-01
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.05
Output $ / M tokens—$0.20
Results tracked603

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Qwen Turbo: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Qwen Turbo: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Qwen Turbo: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Qwen Turbo: 15.3 (#297)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%6.1%
MATH Level 556.9%56.2%
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Qwen Turbo: 22.2 (#272)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
GPQA Diamond55.3%41.8%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Qwen Turbo: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Qwen Turbo: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Qwen Turbo: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Qwen Turbo: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Qwen Turbo: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen Turbo
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen Turbo?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 27.1 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen Turbo share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Turbo has 3.

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