Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3-1.7B
Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-1.7B leads 16.3 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 8.1% for Qwen3-1.7B.
- Qwen3-1.7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 26.6 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-04-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 4 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.4% |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | — | 0% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | — |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Qwen3-1.7B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 8.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 38% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | — |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | — |
| LMArena French | 1229 | — |
| LMArena German | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3-1.7B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen3-1.7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3-1.7B?
Claude 3 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.0 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3-1.7B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.