Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen3 32B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 32B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 50.2 to 43.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 64.9% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 40% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3 32B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.438.8
Released2025-02-242025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked5826

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
Aider Polyglot64.9%40%
LMArena Coding13611358
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
SciCode—35.4%
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331335
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16138.51
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—5%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
DTBench—67.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—17.3%
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%66.9%
LMArena Math13361399
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond79.7%65.7%
LMArena Expert13211362
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Qwen3 32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English12961317
LMArena Chinese12991357
LMArena German13011341
LMArena Russian13111311
LMArena French1302—
LMArena Japanese1268—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Spanish1299—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 73.1 (#120), Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following13521305
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%74.2%
LMArena Longer Query13731327

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3 32B
LMArena Text13141340
LMArena Creative Writing13321297
LMArena Multi-Turn13391331
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen3 32B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3 32B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (39.4 vs 38.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.1 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3 32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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