Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3-1.7B

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3-1.7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.9 vs 26.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-1.7B leads 16.3 to 9.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Claude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.926.6
Released2024-03-072025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked374

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
WeirdML9.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
LMArena Coding1199—
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1174—
DTBench50.1%—
LMCA8.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35—
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Qwen3-1.7B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%8.1%
LMArena Math1188—
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3-1.7B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond36.3%38%
Confabulations34.2%—
LMArena Expert1148—
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1178—
LMArena Chinese1155—
LMArena French1195—
LMArena German1174—
LMArena Japanese1102—
LMArena Korean1109—
LMArena Russian1204—
LMArena Spanish1166—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Instruction Following1173—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1190—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1195—
LMArena Creative Writing1157—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—
LMArena Multi-Turn1190—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3-1.7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (25.9 vs 26.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3-1.7B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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