Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.0 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 2.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.0

Rank #76 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads 38.1 to 23.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench: 46.5% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 27.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
  • Claude Sonnet 4.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.037.7
Released2025-09-292025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output64K66K
Input $ / M tokens$3$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$15$7.50
Results tracked7325

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.8 (#54), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%55.4%
LMArena WebDev13931275
GSO14.7%4.9%
WeirdML47.7%41.2%
LMArena Coding14891413
ALE-Bench796.15461.45
AlgoTune1.521.44
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.1 (#30), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench46.5%27.2%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
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 (#113), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%49.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621372
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
Mystery Game Puzzles17%—
DTBench83.2%—
LMCA38.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 31.9 (#190), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math14481364
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#70), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14831337
GPQA Diamond82.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
SimpleQA Verified30.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.1 (#84), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.6 (#65), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14251345
LMArena Chinese14591356
LMArena French14591394
LMArena German14271324
LMArena Japanese13901309
LMArena Korean14031307
LMArena Russian14361367
LMArena Spanish14571360

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.2 (#74), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14591356
IFEval85%—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#45), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14761379

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.7 (#33), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14391356
LMArena Creative Writing14421333
LMArena Multi-Turn14651365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.0 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 2.0× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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