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Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B

Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B Alibaba (Qwen)

43.2

Rank #95 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads 39.8 to 31.5.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
  • Claude Opus 4 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index43.143.2
Released2025-05-222025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K131K
Max output32K33K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$75$2.80
Results tracked5618

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 42.4 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Coding14421439
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 29.3 (#92)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Hard Prompts13991428
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), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.0 (#118)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Math13901426
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: 44.0 (#88), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 40.3 (#121)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Expert13861442
GPQA Diamond76.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 39.8 (#55)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Vision11921247
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 51.9 (#97)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Non-English13621405
LMArena Chinese13861463
LMArena French13721452
LMArena German13911424
LMArena Japanese13311385
LMArena Korean13211394
LMArena Russian13921408
LMArena Spanish13891428

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 74.2 (#101)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Instruction Following14061406
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 43.4 (#98)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Longer Query14221420
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B: 60.2 (#99)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
LMArena Text13771420
LMArena Creative Writing13871366
LMArena Multi-Turn13961428
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (43.1 vs 43.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B?

Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B has 18.

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