Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 4 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.3 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Instruct: 42.7% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 49% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.033.4
Released2024-02-292024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked3031

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%49%
LMArena Coding12231276
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%58%
HumanEval+64%87.2%
MBPP+69.3%77%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
WeirdML10.2%—
LiveBench Coding—56.9%

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971251
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7119.49
WinoGrande75.1%80.8%
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
DTBench53.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math12131251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
MATH Level 518.2%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert11731221
MMLU75.9%79.1%
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English12051205
LMArena Chinese11891222
LMArena Russian12271228
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following11991223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query12111251

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text12181230
LMArena Creative Writing11861174
LMArena Multi-Turn12271222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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