Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.1

Rank #36 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 52.2 to 13.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.351.1
Released2024-02-292026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked4629

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding12641472
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
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), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
SimpleBench23.5%63%
Chess Puzzles5%20%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461457
DTBench61.6%87.2%
LMCA17%42.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91149.27
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%91.1%
LMArena Math12731465
LiveBench Math43.6%—
MATH Level 537.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond47.2%87.4%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%52%
LMArena Expert12231476
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English12581436
LMArena Chinese12481487
LMArena French12741449
LMArena Russian12801444
LMArena Spanish12461452
LMArena German1258—
LMArena Japanese1204—
LMArena Korean1187—

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following12481437
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query12591457

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text12621447
LMArena Creative Writing12351435
LMArena Multi-Turn12751456
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

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

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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