Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 40.1 to 19.2.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 45.3 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 17 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 44.0 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1487 |
| 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), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 30.8 (#84)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1483 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 40.1 (#94)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1474 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.8 (#107)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1489 |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| 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), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1465 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1534 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1484 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1495 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1438 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1471 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1470 |
Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.0 (#31)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1467 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#45)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1476 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.0 (#41)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3.5 Max Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1470 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1464 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1478 |
| 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 Qwen3.5 Max Preview?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.3 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?
17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.