Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3.7 Max

Qwen3.7 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3.7 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

51.5

Rank #42 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.7 Max in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.7 Max leads 62.4 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 95.6% for Qwen3.7 Max.

Side by side

Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3.7 Max specifications
Claude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.051.5
Released2024-02-292026-05-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.50
Output $ / M tokens—$7.50
Results tracked3033

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3.7 Max: 50.4 (#45)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Coding12231498
SWE-bench Verified—77.3%
LMArena WebDev—1515
SciCode—48.8%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
ALE-Bench—1,189
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3.7 Max: 22.1 (#135)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
GBAEval—0.4%

Reasoning Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3.7 Max: 49.2 (#38)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Hard Prompts11971483
DTBench53.6%92.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7153.68
SimpleBench—70.4%
NYT Connections (extended)—85.1%
CritPt—13.4%
Chess Puzzles—19%
EBR-Bench—9.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—32%
LMCA—44%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3.7 Max: 62.4 (#32)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%95.6%
LMArena Math12131490
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—64.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—34.1%
ProofBench—26%
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3.7 Max: 61.6 (#28)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
GPQA Diamond40.6%90.9%
LMArena Expert11731488
SimpleQA Verified—55.8%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3.7 Max: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3.7 Max: 56.9 (#15)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Non-English12051474
LMArena Chinese11891530
LMArena Russian12271484
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—
LMArena Spanish1204—

Instruction Following Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3.7 Max: 76.7 (#38)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Instruction Following11991460

Long Context Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3.7 Max: 45.4 (#40)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Longer Query12111482

Writing & Preference Qwen3.7 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3.7 Max: 65.0 (#54)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.7 Max
LMArena Text12181476
LMArena Creative Writing11861449
LMArena Multi-Turn12271481
EQ-Bench 4—1110

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3.7 Max?

Qwen3.7 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 51.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3.7 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.7 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3.7 Max share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.7 Max has 33.

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