Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where QwQ-32B leads 38.0 to 14.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.539.8
Released2024-02-292024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4636

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Category by category

Coding QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%44.6%
LiveBench Coding38.6%72.2%
LMArena Coding12641333
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%54.4%
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
WeirdML19.2%—
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
Chess Puzzles5%5%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts12451325
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%65%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91137.6
ForecastBench58.458.3
LiveBench49.2%72%
SimpleBench23.5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
DTBench61.6%—
LMCA17%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%59.2%
LiveBench Math43.6%77.8%
LMArena Math12731359
MATH Level 537.5%—

Knowledge QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond47.2%65.3%
Confabulations22.7%15.6%
LMArena Expert12231324
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU84.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English12581305
LMArena Chinese12481378
LMArena French12751336
LMArena German12581313
LMArena Japanese12041262
LMArena Korean11871279
LMArena Russian12801297
LMArena Spanish12461354

Instruction Following QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12481297

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query12591308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference QwQ-32B leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusQwQ-32B
LMArena Text12621329
LMArena Creative Writing12351288
LMArena Multi-Turn12751314
LiveBench Language50.4%51.4%
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and QwQ-32B share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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