Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen2.5 Plus 1127

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #18 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.7 to 24.8.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.338.1
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6814

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 37.9 (#171)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Coding15351314
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
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: 57.7 (#21), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 24.8 (#139)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Hard Prompts15271299
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 Index155.36—
ForecastBench60—

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 33.5 (#175)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 34.9 (#179)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Expert15461289
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 42.1 (#196)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Non-English14901265
LMArena Chinese15511314
LMArena German15041231
LMArena Japanese14841207
LMArena Russian14971271
LMArena French1513—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 67.4 (#194)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Instruction Following15231275

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 39.2 (#180)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Longer Query15201292
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Qwen2.5 Plus 1127: 49.5 (#186)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5 Plus 1127
LMArena Text15041299
LMArena Creative Writing15061262
LMArena Multi-Turn15141299
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Qwen2.5 Plus 1127?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.7 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 share?

14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 Plus 1127 has 14.

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