Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3-1.7B

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-1.7B in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 38% for Qwen3-1.7B.
  • Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.526.6
Released2024-02-292025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Results tracked464

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.4%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
Chess Puzzles5%0%
SimpleBench23.5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3-1.7B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%8.1%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond47.2%38%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1258—
LMArena Chinese1248—
LMArena French1275—
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Russian1280—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3-1.7B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3-1.7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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