Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen Max

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Max in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Max leads 25.1 to 14.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 67.2% for Qwen Max.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.534.7
Released2024-02-292024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—33K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.60
Output $ / M tokens—$6.40
Results tracked4623

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Coding12641288
Aider Polyglot—21.8%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts12451269
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%16.1%
LMArena Math12731275
MATH Level 537.5%67.2%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1%

Knowledge Qwen Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
GPQA Diamond47.2%56.1%
LMArena Expert12231248
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Non-English12581263
LMArena Chinese12481254
LMArena French12751330
LMArena German12581254
LMArena Japanese12041205
LMArena Korean11871142
LMArena Russian12801274
LMArena Spanish12461290

Instruction Following Qwen Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following12481262
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Qwen Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Longer Query12591288
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Max
LMArena Text12621282
LMArena Creative Writing12351248
LMArena Multi-Turn12751277
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen Max better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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