Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5-Max
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Max leads 36.9 to 10.7.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 40.7 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-01-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.8 (#117)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1359 |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 64.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen2.5-Max: 25.6 (#147)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1360 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 132.53 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 51.4% |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 67.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 62.3% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen2.5-Max: 36.9 (#162)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1369 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 58.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen2.5-Max: 35.3 (#186)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1337 |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 21.8% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen2.5-Max: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.1 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1352 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1382 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1396 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1350 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1300 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1304 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1353 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1377 |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.3 (#152)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1335 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 75.3% |
Long Context Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.4 (#142)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1358 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5-Max leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.4 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen2.5-Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1367 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1339 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1364 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 72.9% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 56.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5-Max?
Qwen2.5-Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.7 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?
Qwen2.5-Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.8 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-Max share?
18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.