# Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen Max

> Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-qwen-max
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen Max in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Max leads 24.1 to 14.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 67.2% for Qwen Max.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 34.4 |
| Rank | 300 | 226 |
| Context | — | 33K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.60 |
| Output $/M | — | $6.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261)
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#288)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1288 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110)
- Qwen Max: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318)
- Qwen Max: 24.1 (#154)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1270 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293)
- Qwen Max: 21.0 (#272)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | 67.2% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262)
- Qwen Max: 30.3 (#222)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1248 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112)
- Qwen Max: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202)
- Qwen Max: 42.0 (#197)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1254 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | 1329 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1141 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1290 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223)
- Qwen Max: 66.7 (#203)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1262 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197)
- Qwen Max: 39.4 (#175)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1289 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208)
- Qwen Max: 48.0 (#200)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1277 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen Max?

Qwen Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen Max better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 30.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen Max share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.