Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B costs 5.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.4

Rank #245 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 87.9 to 33.3.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper at $0.66 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 33K.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index61.933.4
Released2026-09-282024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M33K
Max output128K29K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.66
Output $ / M tokens$10$1
Results tracked3231

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Coding15131276
FrontierCode52.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
Aider Polyglot—16.4%
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
SciCode61%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49%
LiveBench Coding—56.9%
BigCodeBench Complete—58%
ALE-Bench1,819—
HumanEval+—87.2%
MBPP+—77%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
APEX-Agents75.5%—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14951251
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03119.49
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%—
CritPt31.4%—
LiveBench Reasoning—42.1%
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—49.9%
HellaSwag—83%
LiveBench—46.2%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Math15101251
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%—
ProofBench100%—
LiveBench Math—46.6%
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert15401221
GPQA Diamond95.6%—
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%
MMLU—79.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Vision1289—
Furniture Assembly75%—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English14521205
LMArena Chinese15221222
LMArena Russian14511228

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14951223
LiveBench Instruction Following—58.7%

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query14981251

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Qwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text14711230
LMArena Creative Writing14651174
LMArena Multi-Turn14741222
LiveBench Language—23.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 33.4 on the Noometry Index. Qwen2.5-Coder-32B costs 5.4× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is cheaper. It lists at $0.66 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5.5 lists at $2 and $10.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 22.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 33K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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