Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Qwen3 Max

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (44.1 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3 Max in 2 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 38.7 to 32.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleQA Verified: 30.7% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 48.7% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
  • Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index44.143.7
Released2025-09-292025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K262K
Max output64K66K
Input $ / M tokens$3$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$15$6
Results tracked7333

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14891456
ALE-Bench796.15370.45
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
LMArena WebDev1393—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
SciCode44.7%—
GSO14.7%—
WeirdML47.7%—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
Vending-Bench 23,83971.56
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
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%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%30.1%
Chess Puzzles12%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621448
Mystery Game Puzzles17%5%
DTBench83.2%82.1%
LMCA38.8%28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84142.38
ARC-AGI-213.6%—
SimpleBench54.3%—
ARC-AGI-163.7%—
CritPt1.1%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%73.3%
LMArena Math14491446
MATH Level 597.7%97.1%
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
ProofBench19%—
Omni-MATH55.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond82.3%72.6%
SimpleQA Verified30.7%48.7%
LMArena Expert14821455
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
VPCT39.8%—
LMArena Document1450—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14251429
LMArena Chinese14591478
LMArena French14581449
LMArena German14271463
LMArena Japanese13901397
LMArena Korean14031399
LMArena Russian14371428
LMArena Spanish14571462

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14591419
IFEval85%—

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query14761438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text14391439
LMArena Creative Writing14421402
LMArena Multi-Turn14651446
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1678—
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Qwen3 Max?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Qwen3 Max score almost the same on the Noometry Index (44.1 vs 43.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.3 versus 43.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Qwen3 Max share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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