Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs QwQ-32B
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 4 categories and QwQ-32B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 88.7 to 36.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 60.5 | 39.4 |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2024-11-28 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 36 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1699 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1326 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |
Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 59.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1359 |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | 65.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1323 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), QwQ-32B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1378 |
| LMArena French | — | 1337 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1353 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1314 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than QwQ-32B?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 39.4 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.5 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32B share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.