Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Qwen3-4B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-4B leads 29.7 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 52.2% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.031.9
Released2024-02-292025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
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Results tracked306

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
LMArena Coding1223—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—35.7%

Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles—4%
LMArena Hard Prompts1197—
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3-4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%52.2%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—38.5%
LMArena Math1213—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3-4B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond40.6%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.7%
LMArena Expert1173—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1205—
LMArena Chinese1189—
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
LMArena Instruction Following1199—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1211—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3-4B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-4B
LMArena Text1218—
LMArena Creative Writing1186—
LMArena Multi-Turn1227—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3-4B?

Qwen3-4B is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3-4B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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