Model comparison
Claude Haiku 5.5 vs QwQ-32B
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 5.5 leads 73.6 to 38.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.9% for Claude Haiku 5.5 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 49.5 | 39.8 |
| Released | 2026-10-07 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 9 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 49.2 (#50), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1587 | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
Reasoning Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 35.2 (#69), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 65.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1325 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 30% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 73.6 (#18), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.9% | 59.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 75.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 46.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
Knowledge Claude Haiku 5.5 leads
Claude Haiku 5.5: 50.8 (#70), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.6% | 65.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1324 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: 43.7 (#21), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 47.5% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Haiku 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than QwQ-32B?
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 5.5 and QwQ-32B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 5.5 has 9 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.