Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Qwen3 32B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 38.8 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified October 10, 2026. 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

60.5

Rank #10 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B

Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #166 Confirmed

Summary

They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 88.7 to 37.9.
The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Qwen3 32B specifications
	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
Provider	Anthropic	Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index	60.5	38.8
Released	2026-09-28	2025-04
Weights	Proprietary	Open
Context window	1M	131K
Max output	128K	16K
Input $ / M tokens	$2	$0.70
Output $ / M tokens	$10	$2.80
Results tracked	16	26

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

Coding benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
SciCode	61%	35.4%
FrontierCode	52.1%	—
Aider Polyglot	—	40%
CursorBench	55.5%	—
LMArena WebDev	1699	—
FrontierSWE	61.9%	—
LMArena Coding	—	1358
ALE-Bench	1,819	—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
APEX-Agents	75.5%	—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard	—	48.7%

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

Reasoning benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
CritPt	31.4%	0.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark	—	54.9%
Chess Puzzles	—	5%
LMArena Hard Prompts	—	1335
Mystery Game Puzzles	65%	—
DTBench	—	67.5%
LMCA	—	17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index	—	138.51

Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

Math benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	100%	66.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)	88.8%	—
FrontierMath Tier 4	80.5%	—
ProofBench	100%	—
LMArena Math	—	1399

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

Knowledge benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond	95.6%	65.7%
SimpleQA Verified	46.5%	—
Vectara Hallucination Rate	—	5.9%
LMArena Expert	—	1362

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), Qwen3 32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
Furniture Assembly	75%	—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

Multilingual benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English	—	1317
LMArena Chinese	—	1357
LMArena German	—	1341
LMArena Russian	—	1311

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

Instruction Following benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following	—	1305

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

Long Context benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
Fiction.LiveBench	—	74.2%
LMArena Longer Query	—	1327

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
Benchmark	Claude Sonnet 5.5	Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text	—	1340
LMArena Creative Writing	—	1297
LMArena Multi-Turn	—	1331

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Qwen3 32B?

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 5.5 lists at $2 and $10.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.5 versus 37.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Qwen3 32B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.