Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 37.6 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 19.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 41.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $7.50 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 25 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 19.2% | 41.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1412 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 55.4% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1275 |
| GSO | — | 4.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 461.45 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.44 |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 27.2% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1372 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 49.5% |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1365 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1338 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1346 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1357 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1398 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1325 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1310 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1305 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1366 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1360 |
Instruction Following Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1355 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1378 |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1357 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1365 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.1 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.