Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 35.7 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.429.7
Released2025-02-242024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked587

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16128.52
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%7.4%
MATH Level 591.2%56.1%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1336—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond79.7%46.1%
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1302—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1268—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1299—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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