Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Qwen3-4B

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Qwen3-4B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #264 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3-4B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 48.4 to 33.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 73.2% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 35.7% for Qwen3-4B.
  • Qwen3-4B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Qwen3-4B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.131.9
Released2025-09-292025-04-29
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked736

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Qwen3-4B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
LMArena WebDev1393—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
LMArena Coding1489—
ALE-Bench796.15—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Qwen3-4B: 27.6 (#100)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%35.7%
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Qwen3-4B: 19.2 (#268)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
Chess Puzzles12%4%
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1462—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Qwen3-4B: 29.7 (#240)

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Qwen3-4B: 33.0 (#208)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
GPQA Diamond82.3%52.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%5.7%
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—
LMArena Expert1482—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Qwen3-4B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Qwen3-4B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Non-English1425—
LMArena Chinese1459—
LMArena French1458—
LMArena German1427—
LMArena Japanese1390—
LMArena Korean1403—
LMArena Russian1437—
LMArena Spanish1457—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Qwen3-4B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
IFEval85%—
LMArena Instruction Following1459—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Qwen3-4B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Longer Query1476—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Qwen3-4B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-4B
LMArena Text1439—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1465—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Qwen3-4B?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.1 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Qwen3-4B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-4B has 6.

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