Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Max Preview

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Max Preview Alibaba (Qwen)

51.1

Rank #36 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Max Preview in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads 52.2 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 91.1% for Qwen3.6 Max Preview.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.851.1
Released2024-02-292026-04-20
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.30
Output $ / M tokens—$7.80
Results tracked3029

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 48.6 (#50)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Coding12231472
SWE-bench Verified—76.7%
LMArena WebDev—1482
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3.6 Max Preview: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
Vending-Bench 2—4,254

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 40.8 (#47)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Hard Prompts11971457
DTBench53.6%87.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69149.27
SimpleBench—63%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.1%
Chess Puzzles—20%
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
LMCA—42.5%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 52.2 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%91.1%
LMArena Math12131465
MATH Level 518.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—23.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 57.6 (#35)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
GPQA Diamond40.6%87.4%
LMArena Expert11731476
SimpleQA Verified—52%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 54.3 (#46)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Non-English12051436
LMArena Chinese11881487
LMArena French12281449
LMArena Russian12271444
LMArena Spanish12041452
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 75.8 (#51)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Instruction Following12001437

Long Context Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 44.6 (#59)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Longer Query12111457

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Max Preview leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Qwen3.6 Max Preview: 64.0 (#58)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Max Preview
LMArena Text12181447
LMArena Creative Writing11861435
LMArena Multi-Turn12271456

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3.6 Max Preview?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.1 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3.6 Max Preview better for coding?

Qwen3.6 Max Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Max Preview has 29.

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