Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen1.5-7B

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #39 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #270 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 68.2 to 29.8.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.530.8
Released2025-11-012024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6913

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.6 (#271)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding15041107
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1493—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.5 (#43), Qwen1.5-7B: 19.5 (#237)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts14761066
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.1—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.0 (#222)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math14631080
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.4 (#38), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.2 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert14881055
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
MMLU—62.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.6 (#266)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English14381058
LMArena Chinese14701140
LMArena Russian14481006
LMArena French1471—
LMArena German1449—
LMArena Japanese1415—
LMArena Korean1424—
LMArena Spanish1455—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.4 (#276)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following14781058

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#261)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query14801090
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.8 (#288)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text14511084
LMArena Creative Writing14451035
LMArena Multi-Turn14661061
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 31.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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