# Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs QwQ-32B

> Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-5-5-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 15

## Summary

- They share 15 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 87.9 to 38.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 61.9 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 10 | 159 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1513 | 1333 |
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1774 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1495 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 165.03 | 137.6 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 80.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1510 | 1359 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 2.9% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1540 | 1324 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1289 | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1452 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1522 | 1378 |
| LMArena Russian | 1451 | 1297 |
| LMArena French | — | 1336 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1495 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1498 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1471 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1465 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1474 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than QwQ-32B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32B share?

15 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.