# Claude 2 vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

> Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-qwen3-30b-a3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 4

## Summary

- They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 3 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3-30B-A3B leads 36.0 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 70.3% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
- Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 38.5 |
| Rank | 342 | 174 |
| Context | — | 41K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.12 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.0 (#188)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 33.3% |
| WeirdML | — | 29.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1416 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.5 (#75)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 41.4% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 21.6 (#193)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 69.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | 139.63 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1398 |
| LMCA | — | 22.4% |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 36.0 (#133)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 70.3% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 47.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1394 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.7 (#96)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 70.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1395 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1372 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1434 |
| LMArena French | — | 1419 |
| LMArena German | — | 1379 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1338 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1333 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1369 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1403 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.2 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1364 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#278)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1379 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.9 (#138)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen3-30B-A3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1384 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1318 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 75.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1378 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Qwen3-30B-A3B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.5 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.