Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Qwen2.5-Max

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.5 to 40.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5.5 Anthropic

68.5

Rank #3 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Max Alibaba (Qwen)

40.1

Rank #142 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 92.4 to 34.3.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index68.540.1
Released2026-09-222025-01-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$4—
Output $ / M tokens$20—
Results tracked3527

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 71.4 (#1), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.2 (#118)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Coding15451359
FrontierCode54.4%—
CursorBench57.8%—
LMArena WebDev1820—
FrontierSWE62.3%—
SciCode66.9%—
LiveBench Coding—64.4%
MirrorCode77.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#13), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
APEX-Agents73.5%—
GDP.pdf30.6%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 79.5 (#2), Qwen2.5-Max: 24.6 (#144)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Hard Prompts15451360
ARC-AGI-292.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)88.5%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt31.7%—
EBR-Bench71.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—51.4%
Mystery Game Puzzles71%—
DTBench98.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—67.9%
LMCA68.2%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—132.54
LiveBench—62.3%

Math Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 92.4 (#2), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.3 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)91.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 495%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LiveBench Math—58.4%
LMArena Math—1369

Knowledge Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 66.6 (#9), Qwen2.5-Max: 34.8 (#181)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Expert15641337
GPQA Diamond90.6%—
SimpleQA Verified72.2%—
Confabulations—21.8%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5.5: 56.5 (#2), Qwen2.5-Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
Furniture Assembly83.3%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 59.8 (#1), Qwen2.5-Max: 48.3 (#140)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Non-English15131352
LMArena Chinese15721382
LMArena Russian15321353
LMArena French—1396
LMArena German—1350
LMArena Japanese—1299
LMArena Korean—1304
LMArena Spanish—1377

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 80.1 (#2), Qwen2.5-Max: 71.5 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Instruction Following15351335
LiveBench Instruction Following—75.3%

Long Context Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 47.3 (#18), Qwen2.5-Max: 41.3 (#137)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Longer Query15401358

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5.5 leads

Claude Opus 5.5: 78.7 (#3), Qwen2.5-Max: 55.6 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Qwen2.5-Max
LMArena Text15181367
LMArena Creative Writing15381339
LMArena Multi-Turn15201364
Short-Story Creative Writing—72.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2050—
LiveBench Language—56.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Qwen2.5-Max?

Claude Opus 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 68.5 to 40.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Qwen2.5-Max better for coding?

Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 71.4 versus 41.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and Qwen2.5-Max share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 35 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Max has 27.

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