# Claude 2 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

> Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-qwen2-5-coder-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads 33.3 to 9.3.
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 33.4 |
| Rank | 346 | 245 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.66 |
| Output $/M | — | $1 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.6 (#333)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | 87.2% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 16.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 56.9% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1276 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 58% |
| MBPP+ | — | 77% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 21.2 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | 119.49 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 42.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1251 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 49.9% |
| HellaSwag | — | 83% |
| LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| WinoGrande | — | 80.8% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.3 (#204)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1251 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 93% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 33.4 (#203)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 78.5% | 79.1% |
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1221 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 70.5% |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.8 (#235)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1205 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1222 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1228 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.4 (#245)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 58.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1223 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#208)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1251 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.6 (#240)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen2.5-Coder-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1230 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1174 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1222 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 23.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.