Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3.5 122B-A10B

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 19 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba (Qwen)

42.1

Rank #119 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads 39.1 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 53.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 84.3% for Qwen3.5 122B-A10B.
  • Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.042.1
Released2024-02-292026-02-23
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.40
Output $ / M tokens—$3.20
Results tracked3027

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Coding12231436
LMArena WebDev—1360
SciCode—35.6%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 27.2 (#123)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971421
DTBench53.6%84.3%
NYT Connections (extended)—51.7%
CritPt—0.9%
Thematic Generalization—51.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—17%
LMCA—32.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.1 (#112)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Math12131432
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 38.8 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Expert11731432
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.2%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 39.6 (#57)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Vision9841245

Multilingual Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 51.6 (#107)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Non-English12051400
LMArena Chinese11891462
LMArena French12291442
LMArena German12041426
LMArena Japanese11311367
LMArena Korean11281352
LMArena Russian12271400
LMArena Spanish12041424

Instruction Following Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 73.8 (#115)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Instruction Following11991399

Long Context Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 43.0 (#109)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Longer Query12111410

Writing & Preference Qwen3.5 122B-A10B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3.5 122B-A10B: 60.0 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.5 122B-A10B
LMArena Text12181417
LMArena Creative Writing11861368
LMArena Multi-Turn12271416

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3.5 122B-A10B?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3.5 122B-A10B better for coding?

Qwen3.5 122B-A10B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.1 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.5 122B-A10B has 27.

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