Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 38.7 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 73.3% for Qwen3 Max.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.543.7
Released2024-02-292025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.20
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked4633

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
LMArena Coding12641456
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—
ALE-Bench—370.45
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
Chess Puzzles5%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451448
DTBench61.6%82.1%
LMCA17%28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91142.38
SimpleBench23.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%73.3%
LMArena Math12731446
MATH Level 537.5%97.1%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—18.9%
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond47.2%72.6%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%48.7%
LMArena Expert12231455
Confabulations22.7%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English12581429
LMArena Chinese12481478
LMArena French12751449
LMArena German12581463
LMArena Japanese12041397
LMArena Korean11871399
LMArena Russian12801428
LMArena Spanish12461462

Instruction Following Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following12481419
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query12591438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Qwen3 Max leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwen3 Max
LMArena Text12621439
LMArena Creative Writing12351402
LMArena Multi-Turn12751446
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Qwen3 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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