Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen1.5-110B

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 33.7 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Claude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.534.2
Released2024-02-292024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4620

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%35%
LMArena Coding12641184
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%44.4%
WeirdML19.2%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-110B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts12451168
ForecastBench58.457.7
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen1.5-110B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math12731185
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen1.5-110B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert12231144
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English12581142
LMArena Chinese12481206
LMArena French12751151
LMArena German12581123
LMArena Japanese12041074
LMArena Korean11871044
LMArena Russian12801118
LMArena Spanish12461142

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following12481158
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query12591157

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text12621175
LMArena Creative Writing12351148
LMArena Multi-Turn12751160
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen1.5-110B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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