Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen1.5-32B

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.6

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.5

Rank #293 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 55.6 to 13.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 30.7% for Qwen1.5-32B.
  • Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.630.5
Released2026-06-292024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked5121

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Coding14831155
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1541—
SciCode54.3%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.3%
BigCodeBench Complete—42%
ALE-Bench1,463—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
APEX-Agents54.5%—
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39), Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14611130
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 Index156.21—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27), Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Math14671155
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: 55.6 (#47), Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
GPQA Diamond90.5%30.7%
LMArena Expert14901126
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
MMLU—74.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31), Qwen1.5-32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Vision1274—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55), Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Non-English14311106
LMArena Chinese14771177
LMArena French14601101
LMArena German14401058
LMArena Japanese14221027
LMArena Korean14111008
LMArena Russian14511073
LMArena Spanish14371089

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41), Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14521116

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Longer Query14631146

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25), Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen1.5-32B
LMArena Text14421137
LMArena Creative Writing14161083
LMArena Multi-Turn14541140
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 31.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.

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