Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen1.5-7B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 54.4 to 29.6.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.531.4
Released2025-02-242024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked5813

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding13611107
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-7B leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331065
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math13371080
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert13211055
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
MMLU—62.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English12961058
LMArena Chinese12991141
LMArena Russian13111006
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following13521058
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query13731090
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text13141083
LMArena Creative Writing13321035
LMArena Multi-Turn13391062
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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