# Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen1.5-110B

> Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-qwen1-5-110b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 20

## Summary

- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 4 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-110B leads 33.7 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 57.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B.
- Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 34.2 |
| Rank | 310 | 234 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 35% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1184 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 44.4% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116)
- Qwen1.5-110B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1168 |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | 57.7 |
| 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 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1185 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1144 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116)
- Qwen1.5-110B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1206 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1151 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1123 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1074 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1044 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1118 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1142 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1158 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213)
- Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1175 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1148 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1160 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen1.5-110B?

Qwen1.5-110B is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 33.0); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen1.5-110B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.