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Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 39.0 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.538.8
Released2024-02-292026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked4613

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
LMArena Coding1264—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench23.5%35.2%
Chess Puzzles5%20%
DTBench61.6%77.1%
LMCA17%31%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91143.26
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1245—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%84.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
LiveBench Math43.6%—
LMArena Math1273—
MATH Level 537.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond47.2%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%15.9%
Confabulations22.7%—
LMArena Expert1223—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
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), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1259—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1262—
LMArena Creative Writing1235—
LMArena Multi-Turn1275—
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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