Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen1.5-110B
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 34.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-110B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 52.9 to 38.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 58.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 44.4% for Qwen1.5-110B.
- Qwen1.5-110B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 34.2 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-04-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 20 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.0 (#264)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | 35% |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1184 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | 44.4% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Qwen1.5-110B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Qwen1.5-110B: 22.7 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1168 |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 57.7 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-110B leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.7 (#201)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1185 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Qwen1.5-110B leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Qwen1.5-110B: 31.2 (#219)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1144 |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Qwen1.5-110B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Qwen1.5-110B: 33.6 (#250)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1142 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1206 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1151 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1123 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1074 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1044 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1118 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1142 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Qwen1.5-110B: 60.3 (#252)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1158 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Qwen1.5-110B: 35.1 (#242)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Qwen1.5-110B: 38.0 (#255)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Qwen1.5-110B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1175 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1148 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1160 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen1.5-110B?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-110B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.6 vs 34.2), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen1.5-110B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 33.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-110B share?
20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-110B has 20.