Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen3 32B

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.6

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen3 32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.2

Rank #172 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3 32B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 49.1 to 20.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 50% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 17.3% for Qwen3 32B.
  • Qwen3 32B is cheaper at $0.70 / $2.80 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.
  • Claude Sonnet 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.639.2
Released2026-06-292025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K16K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.70
Output $ / M tokens$10$2.80
Results tracked5126

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26), Qwen3 32B: 37.7 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
SciCode54.3%35.4%
LMArena Coding14831358
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
Aider Polyglot—40%
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1541—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
ALE-Bench1,463—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18), Qwen3 32B: 32.6 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
APEX-Agents54.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—48.7%
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39), Qwen3 32B: 20.2 (#241)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
CritPt16.9%0.3%
Chess Puzzles35%5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611334
DTBench92.5%67.5%
LMCA50%17.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.21138.51
SimpleBench60.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27), Qwen3 32B: 39.7 (#99)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%66.9%
LMArena Math14671399
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
ProofBench77%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.6 (#47), Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#125)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
GPQA Diamond90.5%65.7%
LMArena Expert14901362
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—5.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31), Qwen3 32B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Vision1274—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3 32B: 45.6 (#167)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Non-English14311317
LMArena Chinese14771357
LMArena German14401341
LMArena Russian14511311
LMArena French1460—
LMArena Japanese1422—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Spanish1437—

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41), Qwen3 32B: 68.9 (#179)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Instruction Following14521305

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55), Qwen3 32B: 43.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Longer Query14631327
Fiction.LiveBench—74.2%

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25), Qwen3 32B: 52.9 (#163)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3 32B
LMArena Text14421340
LMArena Creative Writing14161297
LMArena Multi-Turn14541331
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Qwen3 32B?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 39.2 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3 32B costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 37.7 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen3 32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.

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