Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.6

Rank #201 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads 51.3 to 17.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 86.7% for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.937.6
Released2024-03-072026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked3714

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.2 (#196)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
WeirdML9.8%34.5%
SciCode—35.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
LMArena Coding1199—
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 22.1 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%

Reasoning Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 28.0 (#109)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
DTBench50.1%73.9%
LMCA8.8%29.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35143.93
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)—41.6%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LMArena Hard Prompts1174—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 38.9 (#121)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
LMArena Math1188—
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3.6 35B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.3 (#68)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond36.3%84.8%
Confabulations34.2%—
LMArena Expert1148—
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
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 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following1173—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1190—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1195—
LMArena Creative Writing1157—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—
LMArena Multi-Turn1190—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.6 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.2 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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