# Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen3 32B

> Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-qwen3-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3 32B in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 32B leads 37.9 to 13.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 66.9% for Qwen3 32B.
- Qwen3 32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 38.8 |
| Rank | 300 | 166 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Output $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.3 (#184)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1358 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 40% |
| SciCode | — | 35.4% |
| 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)
- Qwen3 32B: 32.3 (#58)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 48.7% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318)
- Qwen3 32B: 19.6 (#233)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1335 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 67.5% |
| LMCA | 17% | 17.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 138.51 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 54.9% |
| CritPt | — | 0.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293)
- Qwen3 32B: 37.9 (#89)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 66.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1399 |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262)
- Qwen3 32B: 40.0 (#112)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 65.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1362 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 5.9% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112)
- Qwen3 32B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202)
- Qwen3 32B: 45.8 (#162)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1317 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1357 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1341 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1311 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223)
- Qwen3 32B: 69.1 (#174)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1305 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197)
- Qwen3 32B: 43.7 (#83)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1327 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 74.2% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208)
- Qwen3 32B: 53.1 (#158)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen3 32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1340 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1297 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1331 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen3 32B better for coding?

Qwen3 32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.3 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen3 32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 32B has 26.