# Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen1.5-32B

> Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-sonnet-vs-qwen1-5-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 21

## Summary

- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5-32B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-32B leads 33.0 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 53.8% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 42% for Qwen1.5-32B.
- Qwen1.5-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 30.5 |
| Rank | 319 | 293 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.7 (#282)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 32.3% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1155 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 42% |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 21.8 (#212)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1130 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 33.0 (#207)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1155 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 13.5 (#296)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 30.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1126 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 74.4% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125)
- Qwen1.5-32B: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 31.4 (#259)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1106 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1177 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1101 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1058 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1027 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1008 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1073 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1089 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 57.7 (#265)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1116 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.7 (#246)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1146 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238)
- Qwen1.5-32B: 34.2 (#271)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1137 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1083 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1140 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen1.5-32B?

Qwen1.5-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen1.5-32B better for coding?

Qwen1.5-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 31.7 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-32B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-32B has 21.