Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct costs 8.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #9 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.7

Rank #291 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.2 to 15.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 7.4% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index60.729.7
Released2026-05-282024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$25$2.80
Results tracked657

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.1 (#165)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45%
LMArena Coding1491—
BigCodeBench Complete—52.3%
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
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: 64.6 (#14), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 18.5 (#262)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Chess Puzzles34%0%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.3128.52
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1481—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
DTBench94.9%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 15.3 (#289)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%7.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%—
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
ProofBench69%—
LMArena Math1487—
MATH Level 5—56.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#259)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
GPQA Diamond91%46.1%
SimpleQA Verified53%—
LMArena Expert1501—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Vision1295—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1450—
LMArena Chinese1509—
LMArena French1482—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1440—
LMArena Korean1432—
LMArena Russian1476—
LMArena Spanish1470—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1476—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
LMArena Text1460—
LMArena Creative Writing1453—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—
LMArena Multi-Turn1476—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5 32B Instruct costs 8.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.8's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 38.1 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.

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