Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #95 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 39.0 to 10.7.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.043.2
Released2024-02-292025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—33K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.70
Output $ / M tokens—$2.80
Results tracked3018

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 42.4 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding12231439
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 29.3 (#92)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971428
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.0 (#118)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math12131426
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 40.3 (#121)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert11731442
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.8 (#55)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision9841247

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 51.9 (#97)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English12051405
LMArena Chinese11891463
LMArena French12291452
LMArena German12041424
LMArena Japanese11311385
LMArena Korean11281394
LMArena Russian12271408
LMArena Spanish12041428

Instruction Following Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.2 (#101)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following11991406

Long Context Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#98)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query12111420

Writing & Preference Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.2 (#99)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text12181420
LMArena Creative Writing11861366
LMArena Multi-Turn12271428

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.2 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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