Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 37.9 to 13.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.338.8
Released2024-02-292025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked4626

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
LMArena Coding12641358
Aider Polyglot—40%
SciCode—35.4%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
Chess Puzzles5%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461335
DTBench61.6%67.5%
LMCA17%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91138.51
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 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%66.9%
LMArena Math12731399
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond47.2%65.7%
LMArena Expert12231362
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English12581317
LMArena Chinese12481357
LMArena German12581341
LMArena Russian12801311
LMArena French1274—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—
LMArena Spanish1246—

Instruction Following Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following12481305
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query12591327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 32B
LMArena Text12621340
LMArena Creative Writing12351297
LMArena Multi-Turn12751331
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3 32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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