Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3 Max

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 43.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 Max costs 4.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3 Max in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 22.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3): 85.6% for Claude Opus 5 and 18.9% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
  • Claude Opus 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index67.843.7
Released2026-07-242025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M262K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$25$6
Results tracked5733

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding15341456
ALE-Bench2,165370.45
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML91.8%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 211,18271.56
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%30.1%
Chess Puzzles42%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261448
Mystery Game Puzzles59%5%
DTBench97.9%82.1%
LMCA64.5%28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78142.38
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%73.3%
LMArena Math15311446
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
ProofBench99%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond93.9%72.6%
SimpleQA Verified59.9%48.7%
LMArena Expert15571455

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Vision1319—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English15011429
LMArena Chinese15741478
LMArena French15191449
LMArena German15241463
LMArena Japanese15161397
LMArena Korean15211399
LMArena Russian15071428
LMArena Spanish15191462

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following15171419

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query15151438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text15071439
LMArena Creative Writing14911402
LMArena Multi-Turn14991446
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Qwen3 Max?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 43.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 Max costs 4.2× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 5 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 43.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 Max share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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