Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads 38.7 to 32.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 56.1% for Qwen2.5 32B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 30.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $2.80 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 38.7 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 45% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 52.3% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 19.2 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 128.52 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | — |
| DTBench | 61.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 16.2 (#296)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 7.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | 56.1% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | — |
Knowledge Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: 24.9 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 46.1% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | — |
| LMArena French | 1275 | — |
| LMArena German | 1258 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Qwen2.5 32B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Qwen2.5 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Qwen2.5 32B Instruct?
Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 30.1), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Qwen2.5 32B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.7 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 32B Instruct has 7.