Model comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen3 Max
Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3 Max in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Qwen3 Max leads 53.7 to 44.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 83.3% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 66.7% for Qwen3 Max.
Side by side
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 43.7 |
| Released | 2025-02-24 | 2025-09-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.20 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $6 |
| Results tracked | 58 | 33 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1456 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| GSO | 3.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 370.45 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Qwen3 Max: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 71.56 |
Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1448 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 142.38 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | — |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 72.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 30.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 4% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 5% |
| DTBench | — | 82.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| LMCA | — | 28.3% |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | — |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |
Math Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1446 |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | 97.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 18.9% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 72.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1455 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 48.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Qwen3 Max: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | — |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |
Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1429 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1478 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1449 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1463 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1397 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1399 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1428 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1462 |
Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1419 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | 66.7% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1438 |
| CL-bench | — | 14.5% |
Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads
Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Qwen3 Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1439 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1402 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1446 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen3 Max?
Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen3 Max better for coding?
Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen3 Max share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.