Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3.5 Max Preview

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

44.7

Rank #72 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads 37.3 to 13.9.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3.5 Max Preview specifications
Claude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.344.7
Released2024-02-29—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4617

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 43.4 (#79)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Coding12641488
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 29.6 (#81)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts12461483
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
DTBench61.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 37.3 (#99)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Math12731473
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%—
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 41.1 (#104)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Expert12231489
GPQA Diamond47.2%—
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 56.4 (#21)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English12581465
LMArena Chinese12481534
LMArena French12741483
LMArena German12581487
LMArena Japanese12041497
LMArena Korean11871438
LMArena Russian12801472
LMArena Spanish12461470

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 77.2 (#28)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following12481467
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 45.2 (#44)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query12591477

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Qwen3.5 Max Preview: 66.1 (#39)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.5 Max Preview
LMArena Text12621471
LMArena Creative Writing12351464
LMArena Multi-Turn12751478
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3.5 Max Preview?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.7 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3.5 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.5 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.4 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3.5 Max Preview share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 Max Preview has 17.

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