Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.3 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 50.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 23.3% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.4 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-09-18 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 33K |
| Max output | — | 29K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.66 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $1 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 31 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 58% |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | 87.2% |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | 77% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1251 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 119.49 |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | 80.8% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1251 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1221 |
| MMLU | 84.6% | 79.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1228 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1223 |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1251 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | 23.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?
26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.