Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen2.5-Max

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 40.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #39 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.1

Rank #142 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 56.4 to 34.8.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen2.5-Max specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.540.1
Released2025-11-012025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6927

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.2 (#118)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding15041359
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1493—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), Qwen2.5-Max: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
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), Qwen2.5-Max: 24.6 (#144)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts14761360
Epoch Capabilities Index150.1132.54
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LMCA44.5%—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.3 (#162)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Math14631369
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%
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), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.8 (#181)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert14881337
GPQA Diamond86%—
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Confabulations—21.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), Qwen2.5-Max: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.3 (#140)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English14381352
LMArena Chinese14701382
LMArena French14711396
LMArena German14491350
LMArena Japanese14151299
LMArena Korean14241304
LMArena Russian14481353
LMArena Spanish14551377

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.5 (#147)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following14781335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.3 (#137)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query14801358
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.6 (#141)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text14511367
LMArena Creative Writing14451339
LMArena Multi-Turn14661364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 40.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 41.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen2.5-Max share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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