Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen1.5-7B
Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 29.0 to 10.0.
- Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen1.5-7B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1107 |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1066 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.69 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-7B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1080 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1055 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 62.6% |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Qwen1.5-7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1058 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1188 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1006 |
| LMArena French | 1228 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1200 | 1058 |
Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1090 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1084 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1035 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1061 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen1.5-7B?
Qwen1.5-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.8 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?
Qwen1.5-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.6 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-7B share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.