Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3.5-9B

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3.5-9B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.8

Rank #236 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3.5-9B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen3.5-9B leads 46.0 to 24.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 61.7% for Qwen3.5-9B.
  • Qwen3.5-9B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.533.8
Released2024-02-292026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.15
Results tracked4610

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3.5-9B: 35.9 (#217)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
SciCode—27.5%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3.5-9B: 14.5 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
Terminal-Bench—9.2%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3.5-9B: 23.1 (#182)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
Chess Puzzles5%12%
DTBench61.6%71.2%
LMCA17%24.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91139.46
SimpleBench23.5%—
CritPt—0.3%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3.5-9B: 34.8 (#192)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%61.7%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—48.5%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5-9B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3.5-9B: 46.0 (#84)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
GPQA Diamond47.2%79%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
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), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3.5-9B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5-9B
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3.5-9B?

Qwen3.5-9B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3.5-9B better for coding?

Qwen3.5-9B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3.5-9B share?

6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5-9B has 10.

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