Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen1.5-110B
Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 33.7 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B.
- Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 34.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-04-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen1.5-110B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 35% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1184 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 44.4% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen1.5-110B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1168 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.7 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-110B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1185 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Qwen1.5-110B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1144 |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen1.5-110B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1206 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1151 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1123 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1074 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1044 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1118 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1142 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1158 |
Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1175 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1148 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1160 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen1.5-110B?
Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?
Qwen1.5-110B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.0 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-110B share?
19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.