Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5-Coder-32B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

32.9

Rank #239 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in coding, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 39.5 to 22.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 51.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 16.4% for Qwen2.5-Coder-32B.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.432.9
Released2024-06-202024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—33K
Max output—29K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.66
Output $ / M tokens—$1
Results tracked6031

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 22.4 (#328)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
Aider Polyglot51.6%16.4%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%49%
LiveBench Coding67.1%56.9%
LMArena Coding13431276
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%58%
HumanEval+81.7%87.2%
MBPP+74.3%77%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9%
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
CadEval48%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 20.4 (#220)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%42.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts13051251
LiveBench Data Analysis55%49.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55119.41
LiveBench59%46.2%
SimpleBench41.4%—
EnigmaEval0.9%—
DTBench67.8%—
ForecastBench60.7—
HellaSwag—83%
WinoGrande—80.8%

Math Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 30.8 (#203)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Math52.3%46.6%
LMArena Math13061251
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—
GSM8K—93%

Knowledge Qwen2.5-Coder-32B leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 32.9 (#200)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Expert12641221
MMLU87.3%79.1%
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—70.5%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 38.0 (#230)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Non-English12831205
LMArena Chinese12711222
LMArena Russian13051228
LMArena French1304—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Spanish1289—

Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 61.6 (#240)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%58.7%
LMArena Instruction Following12971223
IFEval85.5%—

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 37.9 (#204)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Longer Query13111251

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Qwen2.5-Coder-32B: 41.8 (#235)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-Coder-32B
LMArena Text12981230
LMArena Creative Writing12921174
LMArena Multi-Turn13261222
LiveBench Language53.8%23.3%
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5-Coder-32B?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen2.5-Coder-32B better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 22.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder-32B has 31.

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