Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen Plus

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

36.7

Rank #204 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 27.6 to 14.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 65.3% for Qwen Plus.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen Plus
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.336.7
Released2024-02-292024-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$1.20
Results tracked4620

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Category by category

Coding Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Coding12641328
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: 24.3 (#110), Qwen Plus: —

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

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts12461317
DTBench61.6%81.1%
LMCA17%24%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—63.3%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%17.8%
LMArena Math12731326
MATH Level 537.5%65.3%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
GPQA Diamond47.2%48.1%
LMArena Expert12231328
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Qwen Plus: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Non-English12581310
LMArena Chinese12481347
LMArena Japanese12041251
LMArena Russian12801323
LMArena French1274—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Instruction Following12481303
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Longer Query12591325

Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen Plus
LMArena Text12621326
LMArena Creative Writing12351293
LMArena Multi-Turn12751336
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen Plus?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen Plus better for coding?

Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.3 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

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

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