Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 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 leads 43.9 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 76.3% for Claude Opus 4 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.930.0
Released2025-05-222024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5621

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14421155
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts13991131
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: 40.2 (#80), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math13911155
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%—
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond76.3%30.7%
LMArena Expert13841126
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1192—
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English13621106
LMArena Chinese13861176
LMArena French13701100
LMArena German13911058
LMArena Japanese13321027
LMArena Korean13181007
LMArena Russian13921073
LMArena Spanish13881089

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14061116
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query14221146
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text13771137
LMArena Creative Writing13861083
LMArena Multi-Turn13961140
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 31.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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