Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3.5-Flash

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.7

Rank #333 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

42.3

Rank #105 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5-Flash in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen3.5-Flash leads 58.2 to 29.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 84.4% for Qwen3.5-Flash.

Side by side

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.5-Flash specifications
Claude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.742.3
Released2024-03-072026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.40
Results tracked3732

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.1 (#320), Qwen3.5-Flash: 33.9 (#234)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Coding11991412
LMArena WebDev—1243
WeirdML9.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
ALE-Bench—221.8
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: —, Qwen3.5-Flash: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
Vending-Bench 2—462.69

Reasoning Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 15.7 (#303), Qwen3.5-Flash: 32.9 (#63)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Hard Prompts11741404
DTBench50.1%82.9%
LMCA8.8%29.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.3143.98
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
Chess Puzzles—21%
Mystery Game Puzzles—20%
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.2 (#313), Qwen3.5-Flash: 36.3 (#117)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%84.4%
LMArena Math11881407
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.2%
MATH Level 514.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—6.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#280), Qwen3.5-Flash: 43.2 (#84)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
GPQA Diamond36.3%82.3%
LMArena Expert11481408
SimpleQA Verified—20.3%
Confabulations34.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.5%
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.1 (#123), Qwen3.5-Flash: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#238), Qwen3.5-Flash: 50.7 (#116)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Non-English11781385
LMArena Chinese11551446
LMArena French11941412
LMArena German11741389
LMArena Japanese11021369
LMArena Korean11081344
LMArena Russian12041379
LMArena Spanish11651399

Instruction Following Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.5 (#242), Qwen3.5-Flash: 72.8 (#133)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Instruction Following11741374

Long Context Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#232), Qwen3.5-Flash: 42.4 (#119)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Longer Query11911392

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5-Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.8 (#286), Qwen3.5-Flash: 58.2 (#117)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.5-Flash
LMArena Text11951397
LMArena Creative Writing11571343
LMArena Multi-Turn11901393
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen3.5-Flash?

Qwen3.5-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.3 to 25.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Qwen3.5-Flash better for coding?

Qwen3.5-Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.9 versus 26.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.5-Flash share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-Flash has 32.

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