Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.6

Rank #29 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

38.1

Rank #190 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 66.2 to 37.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GSO: 37.3% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 4.9% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.
  • Claude Sonnet 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.638.1
Released2026-06-292025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$2$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$10$7.50
Results tracked5125

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev15411275
GSO37.3%4.9%
WeirdML68.8%41.2%
LMArena Coding14831412
ALE-Bench1,463461.45
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
CursorBench34.1%—
SciCode54.3%—
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
APEX-Agents54.5%—
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts14611372
SimpleBench60.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
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), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math14671365
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), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert14901338
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1274—
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English14311346
LMArena Chinese14771357
LMArena French14601398
LMArena German14401325
LMArena Japanese14221310
LMArena Korean14111305
LMArena Russian14511366
LMArena Spanish14371360

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following14521355

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query14631378

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text14421357
LMArena Creative Writing14161333
LMArena Multi-Turn14541365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 38.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5 lists at $2 and $10.

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 35.5 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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