Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen3.5 Plus

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.4

Rank #154 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #103 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5 Plus in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.5 Plus leads 32.0 to 18.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 86.7% for Qwen3.5 Plus.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3.5 Plus specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.442.3
Released2025-02-242026-02-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$2.40
Results tracked5815

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 41.1 (#120), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
CadEval54%—
ALE-Bench—621.92

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.9 (#46), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—
Vending-Bench 2—0.54

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.7 (#252), Qwen3.5 Plus: 32.0 (#67)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16146.79
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—22%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
DTBench—80.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—36.4%
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 35.7 (#137), Qwen3.5 Plus: 47.9 (#55)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%86.7%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%21%
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1336—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Plus leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.7 (#117), Qwen3.5 Plus: 46.0 (#78)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
GPQA Diamond79.7%84.8%
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
SimpleQA Verified—25.4%
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.7%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.1 (#90), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.3 (#174), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
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), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.2 (#10), Qwen3.5 Plus: 42.9 (#109)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
CL-bench—19.8%
CL-bench Life—12.4%
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.6 (#145), Qwen3.5 Plus: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen3.5 Plus
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 Qwen3.5 Plus?

Qwen3.5 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3.5 Plus share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Plus has 15.

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