Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.3

Rank #54 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Plus leads 50.6 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 93.3% for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.847.3
Released2024-02-292026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked3037

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.6 (#125)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Coding12231467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
LMArena WebDev—1461
SciCode—40.7%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—670.15
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Qwen3.6 Plus: 28.5 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Hard Prompts11971449
DTBench53.6%81.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69147.67
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
CritPt—2.9%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
LMCA—33.1%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Qwen3.6 Plus: 50.6 (#44)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%93.3%
LMArena Math12131450
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
MATH Level 518.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—8.3%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond40.6%88.4%
LMArena Expert11731456
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

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

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.5 (#66)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English12051424
LMArena Chinese11881478
LMArena French12281454
LMArena German12041451
LMArena Japanese11311389
LMArena Korean11281381
LMArena Russian12271434
LMArena Spanish12041432

Instruction Following Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.2 (#70)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following12001425

Long Context Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.1 (#48)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query12111440
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.4 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text12181437
LMArena Creative Writing11861405
LMArena Multi-Turn12271438

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.3 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Qwen3.6 Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 29.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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