Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2.5-Max

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.7

Rank #146 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 36.9 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 38.6% for Claude 3 Opus and 64.4% for Qwen2.5-Max.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.540.7
Released2024-02-292025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4627

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LiveBench Coding38.6%64.4%
LMArena Coding12641359
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%51.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451360
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%67.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91132.53
LiveBench49.2%62.3%
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LiveBench Math43.6%58.4%
LMArena Math12731369
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
Confabulations22.7%21.8%
LMArena Expert12231337
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English12581352
LMArena Chinese12481382
LMArena French12751396
LMArena German12581350
LMArena Japanese12041300
LMArena Korean11871304
LMArena Russian12801353
LMArena Spanish12461377

Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%75.3%
LMArena Instruction Following12481335

Long Context Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query12591358

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text12621367
LMArena Creative Writing12351339
LMArena Multi-Turn12751364
LiveBench Language50.4%56.3%
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5-Max share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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