# Claude 2 vs Qwen1.5-32B

> Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-qwen1-5-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-32B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 30.5 to 8.7.
- Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 30.0 |
| Rank | 342 | 288 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.1 (#278)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1155 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 42% |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 20.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1131 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 30.5 (#207)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1155 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#291)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 30.7% |
| MMLU | 78.5% | 74.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1126 |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.6 (#254)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1106 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1176 |
| LMArena French | — | 1100 |
| LMArena German | — | 1058 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1027 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1007 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1073 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1089 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 58.0 (#260)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1116 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#241)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1146 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.4 (#266)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1140 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.0 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen1.5-32B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.