Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 37.6 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 38% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 27.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.038.1
Released2025-08-052025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K262K
Max output32K66K
Input $ / M tokens$15$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$75$7.50
Results tracked4825

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev13901275
WeirdML45.9%41.2%
LMArena Coding14791412
ALE-Bench674.77461.45
AlgoTune1.341.44
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
GSO—4.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench38%27.2%
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14431372
SimpleBench60%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12—
ForecastBench62—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math14311365
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14391338
GPQA Diamond77.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14051346
LMArena Chinese14271357
LMArena French14311398
LMArena German14131325
LMArena Japanese13781310
LMArena Korean13801305
LMArena Russian14221366
LMArena Spanish14481360

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14351355

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14551378

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14191357
LMArena Creative Writing14121333
LMArena Multi-Turn14441365
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 10× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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