Model comparison
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct vs Sonar
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Sonar score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.1 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
PerplexitySummary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads 25.5 to 21.1.
- Sonar is cheaper at $1 / $1 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Perplexity |
| Noometry Index | 38.1 | 38.5 |
| Released | 2025-04 | 2024-01-01 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 262K | 128K |
| Max output | 66K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.50 | $1 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $7.50 | $1 |
| Results tracked | 25 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Too close to call
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 35.5 (#223), Sonar: 35.7 (#221)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 55.4% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1275 | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| WeirdML | 41.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 35.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1412 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 461.45 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.44 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.9 (#123), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
Reasoning Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 25.5 (#149), Sonar: 21.1 (#227)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 49.5% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 46.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 37.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.9% |
Math Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.6 (#150), Sonar: 33.7 (#200)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1365 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 37.0 (#162), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1338 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.7 (#148), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1346 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1357 | — |
| LMArena French | 1398 | — |
| LMArena German | 1325 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1310 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1366 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1360 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.6 (#147), Sonar: 71.4 (#150)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 76.2% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1355 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#131), Sonar: —
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1378 | — |
Writing & Preference Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct leads
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.3 (#147), Sonar: 52.6 (#167)
| Benchmark | Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1357 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1333 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1365 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 44.1% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better than Sonar?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Sonar score almost the same on the Noometry Index (38.1 vs 38.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Which is cheaper, Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or Sonar?
Sonar is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens; Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct lists at $1.50 and $7.50.
Is Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct or Sonar better for coding?
They score almost the same on coding (35.5 vs 35.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct does, with 262K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct and Sonar share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25 scored results on Noometry and Sonar has 7.