Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 34.9 to 18.0.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 37.7 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GSO | 4.6% | 4.9% |
| WeirdML | 40% | 41.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1343 | 1413 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1372 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| 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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1306 | 1364 |
| 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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1264 | 1337 |
| 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: 26.0 (#115), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1345 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1271 | 1356 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1394 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1324 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1309 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1307 |
| LMArena Russian | 1305 | 1367 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1289 | 1360 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1356 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1379 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1356 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1365 |
| 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-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.7 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.