Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 7 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 37.4 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.038.9
Released2024-02-292025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked3032

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
WeirdML10.2%29.8%
LMArena Coding12231416
SciCode—33.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971398
DTBench53.6%69.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7139.63
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
CritPt—0.3%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LMCA—22.4%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%70.3%
LMArena Math12131394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond40.6%70.1%
LMArena Expert11731396
Confabulations—12.3%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English12051372
LMArena Chinese11891433
LMArena French12291418
LMArena German12041380
LMArena Japanese11311337
LMArena Korean11281331
LMArena Russian12271370
LMArena Spanish12041404

Instruction Following Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following11991363

Long Context Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query12111379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Qwen3-30B-A3B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text12181384
LMArena Creative Writing11861317
LMArena Multi-Turn12271378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Qwen3-30B-A3B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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