Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen Max

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Max costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Qwen Max Alibaba (Qwen)

34.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen Max in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4 leads 42.0 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 72% for Claude Opus 4 and 21.8% for Qwen Max.
  • Qwen Max is cheaper at $1.60 / $6.40 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
  • Claude Opus 4 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 33K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4Qwen Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.134.7
Released2025-05-222024-04-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K33K
Max output32K8K
Input $ / M tokens$15$1.60
Output $ / M tokens$75$6.40
Results tracked5623

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
Aider Polyglot72%21.8%
LMArena Coding14421288
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
LMArena Hard Prompts13991269
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%16.1%
LMArena Math13901275
MATH Level 585%67.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%1%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
GPQA Diamond76.3%56.1%
LMArena Expert13861248
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Qwen Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
LMArena Non-English13621263
LMArena Chinese13861254
LMArena French13721330
LMArena German13911254
LMArena Japanese13311205
LMArena Korean13211142
LMArena Russian13921274
LMArena Spanish13891290

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
LMArena Instruction Following14061262
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%66.7%
LMArena Longer Query14221288

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen Max
LMArena Text13771282
LMArena Creative Writing13871248
LMArena Multi-Turn13961277
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Qwen Max?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen Max costs 11× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.60 per million input tokens and $6.40 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Qwen Max better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4 does, with 200K tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Qwen Max share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.

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