Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3.6 27B

Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 27B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.2

Rank #117 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 27B in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 27B leads 48.5 to 9.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 27B.
  • Qwen3.6 27B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.6 27B specifications
Claude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.942.2
Released2024-03-072026-04-22
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.60
Output $ / M tokens—$3.60
Results tracked3711

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Qwen3.6 27B: 39.1 (#163)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
SciCode—37.3%
WeirdML9.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
LMArena Coding1199—
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Qwen3.6 27B: 25.0 (#153)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
DTBench50.1%78.1%
LMCA8.8%34.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35146.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
CritPt—0.9%
Chess Puzzles—22%
LMArena Hard Prompts1174—
Mystery Game Puzzles—7%
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Qwen3.6 27B: 48.5 (#62)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%91.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—35.1%
LMArena Math1188—
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Qwen3.6 27B: 52.4 (#63)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
GPQA Diamond36.3%85.9%
Confabulations34.2%—
LMArena Expert1148—
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
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), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Instruction Following1173—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Qwen3.6 27B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Longer Query1190—

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 27B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Qwen3.6 27B: 50.3 (#181)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 27B
LMArena Text1195—
LMArena Creative Writing1157—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—
EQ-Bench 4—1026
LMArena Multi-Turn1190—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen3.6 27B?

Qwen3.6 27B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.2 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Qwen3.6 27B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 27B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.6 27B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 27B has 11.

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