Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen1.5-110B

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

34.2

Rank #234 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 33.7.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen1.5-110B specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index60.734.2
Released2026-05-282024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6520

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding14901184
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts14821168
ForecastBench59.957.7
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert15021144
GPQA Diamond91%—
SimpleQA Verified53%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Qwen1.5-110B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English14501142
LMArena Chinese15071206
LMArena French14811151
LMArena German14721123
LMArena Japanese14401074
LMArena Korean14321044
LMArena Russian14741118
LMArena Spanish14661142

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following14761158

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query14831157

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text14611175
LMArena Creative Writing14541148
LMArena Multi-Turn14761160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 34.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen1.5-110B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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