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Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.4

Rank #176 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 38.0 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.838.4
Released2024-02-292026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked3013

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
LMArena Coding1223—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Qwen3.6 Flash: 28.4 (#90)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
DTBench53.6%77.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1197—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
LMCA—31%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Qwen3.6 Flash: 38.0 (#88)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%84.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
LMArena Math1213—
MATH Level 518.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.2 (#90)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond40.6%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
LMArena Expert1173—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1205—
LMArena Chinese1188—
LMArena French1228—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Russian1227—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1200—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1211—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1218—
LMArena Creative Writing1186—
LMArena Multi-Turn1227—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.4 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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