Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.7

Rank #4 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #288 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.1 to 20.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 93.9% for Claude Opus 5 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Qwen1.5-32B specifications
Claude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index67.730.0
Released2026-07-242024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5721

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.0 (#5), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding15331155
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1694—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.5 (#1), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.1 (#3), Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts15251131
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.67—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.1 (#6), Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math15331155
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#8), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond93.9%30.7%
LMArena Expert15581126
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 51.1 (#6), Qwen1.5-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#3), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English15001106
LMArena Chinese15751176
LMArena French15221100
LMArena German15221058
LMArena Japanese15101027
LMArena Korean15261007
LMArena Russian15071073
LMArena Spanish15191089

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#5), Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following15161116

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#20), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query15161146

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#2), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text15061137
LMArena Creative Writing14911083
LMArena Multi-Turn14961140
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 31.1 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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