Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 37.4 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.538.9
Released2024-02-292025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked4632

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
WeirdML19.2%29.8%
LMArena Coding12641416
SciCode—33.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
Chess Puzzles5%8%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451398
DTBench61.6%69.3%
LMCA17%22.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91139.63
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%70.3%
LMArena Math12731394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond47.2%70.1%
Confabulations22.7%12.3%
LMArena Expert12231396
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12581372
LMArena Chinese12481433
LMArena French12751418
LMArena German12581380
LMArena Japanese12041337
LMArena Korean11871331
LMArena Russian12801370
LMArena Spanish12461404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following12481363
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12591379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text12621384
LMArena Creative Writing12351317
LMArena Multi-Turn12751378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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