Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 61.9 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.230.5
Released2026-02-042024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6821

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding15361155
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts15271130
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond90.5%30.7%
LMArena Expert15461126
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14891106
LMArena Chinese15511177
LMArena French15131101
LMArena German15021058
LMArena Japanese14841027
LMArena Korean14641008
LMArena Russian14971073
LMArena Spanish15101089

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following15231116

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query15201146
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text15031137
LMArena Creative Writing15051083
LMArena Multi-Turn15131140
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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