Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 9 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 9 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 17.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 61.6% for Claude 3 Opus and 47.7% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 28.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.17 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 37.6% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 46.1% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| BALROG | — | 7.8% |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 0% |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 47.7% |
| LMCA | 17% | 6.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 118.44 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 2.5% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 29.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 35.5% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | 72.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 53.9% |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 34.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | — |
| LMArena French | 1274 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| IFEval | — | 74.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 7B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| WildBench | — | 73.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?
Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.3 vs 28.6), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?
9 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.