Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen1.5-7B

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 57.1 to 29.6.
  • Qwen1.5-7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Claude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.831.4
Released2025-05-222024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5813

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding14141107
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
Aider Polyglot61.3%—
SciCode40%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts13721065
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval3.1%—
DTBench77.1%—
LMCA29%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math13751080
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%—
Omni-MATH60.2%—
MATH Level 584.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert13721055
GPQA Diamond79.2%—
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—
MMLU—62.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Qwen1.5-7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English13331058
LMArena Chinese13501141
LMArena Russian13551006
LMArena French1363—
LMArena German1331—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1291—
LMArena Spanish1357—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following13761058
IFEval84%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query13981090
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%—

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text13511083
LMArena Creative Writing13451035
LMArena Multi-Turn13761062
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 31.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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