Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen1.5-110B

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.5

Rank #26 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-110B Alibaba (Qwen)

33.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 66.1 to 31.1.
  • Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.533.6
Released2026-06-292024-04-25
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked5120

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20), Qwen1.5-110B: 32.4 (#260)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Coding14831184
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1540—
SciCode53.6%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—35%
BigCodeBench Complete—44.4%
ALE-Bench1,463—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16), Qwen1.5-110B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
APEX-Agents54.5%—
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37), Qwen1.5-110B: 21.7 (#192)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Hard Prompts14611168
ForecastBench61.157.7
SimpleBench60.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
CritPt16.9%—
Chess Puzzles35%—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench92.5%—
LMCA50%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.34—

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.1 (#199)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Math14671185
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%—
ProofBench77%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42), Qwen1.5-110B: 30.7 (#217)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Expert14911144
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26), Qwen1.5-110B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Vision1275—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.8 (#245)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Non-English14311142
LMArena Chinese14751206
LMArena French14571150
LMArena German14481123
LMArena Japanese14221074
LMArena Korean14111044
LMArena Russian14521118
LMArena Spanish14361141

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.6 (#247)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Instruction Following14531158

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.0 (#237)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Longer Query14641157

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.1 (#250)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-110B
LMArena Text14431175
LMArena Creative Writing14161148
LMArena Multi-Turn14541160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 33.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen1.5-110B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.

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