Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4 vs Qwen3 32B

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 4.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #145 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3 32B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where Qwen3 32B leads 43.8 to 33.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Fiction.LiveBench: 46.9% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 74.2% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.
  • Claude Sonnet 4 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index40.839.2
Released2025-05-222025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K131K
Max output64K16K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$15$2.80
Results tracked5826

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
Aider Polyglot61.3%40%
SciCode40%35.4%
LMArena Coding14141358
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)64.9%—
GSO4.9%—
WeirdML46.1%—
ALE-Bench655.35—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
TheAgentCompany33.1%—
Cybench35%—
DeepResearch Bench46.6%—
OSWorld43.9%—
METR Time Horizons62%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark73%54.9%
CritPt0.3%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts13721334
DTBench77.1%67.5%
LMCA29%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index141.69138.51
ARC-AGI-25.9%—
SimpleBench45.5%—
ARC-AGI-140%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
EnigmaEval3.1%—
ForecastBench60.2—

Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202571.1%66.9%
LMArena Math13751399
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), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond79.2%65.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.3%5.9%
LMArena Expert13721362
Humanity's Last Exam7.8%—
MMLU-Pro84.3%—
Confabulations13.2%—
GPQA (HELM)70.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1191—
GeoBench37%—
VPCT34%—
MindCube44.8%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English13331317
LMArena Chinese13501357
LMArena German13311341
LMArena Russian13551311
LMArena French1363—
LMArena Japanese1302—
LMArena Korean1291—
LMArena Spanish1357—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following13761305
IFEval84%—

Long Context Qwen3 32B leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
Fiction.LiveBench46.9%74.2%
LMArena Longer Query13981327

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads

Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text13511340
LMArena Creative Writing13451297
LMArena Multi-Turn13761331
Short-Story Creative Writing81.4%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1483—
WildBench83.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Qwen3 32B?

Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 4.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 4's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4 or Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.70 per million input tokens and $2.80 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 4 does, with 200K tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Qwen3 32B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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