Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3 8B

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Qwen3 8B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.7

Rank #238 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 8B in 5 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 8B leads 34.9 to 9.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 56.1% for Qwen3 8B.
  • Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.933.7
Released2024-03-072025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.18
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked3711

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 8B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
SciCode—22.6%
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 8B: 30.2 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—42.6%

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
DTBench50.1%59.7%
LMCA8.8%8.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35136.17
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles—5%
LMArena Hard Prompts1174—
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Qwen3 8B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%56.1%
LMArena Math1188—
MATH Level 514.9%—

Knowledge Qwen3 8B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
GPQA Diamond36.3%56.8%
Confabulations34.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—4.8%
LMArena Expert1148—
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
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 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
LMArena Instruction Following1173—

Long Context Qwen3 8B leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
Fiction.LiveBench—62.1%
LMArena Longer Query1190—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Qwen3 8B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3 8B
LMArena Text1195—
LMArena Creative Writing1157—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—
LMArena Multi-Turn1190—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen3 8B?

Qwen3 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Haiku or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Qwen3 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.0 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3 8B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.

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