Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3.8 Max

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

56.8

Rank #22 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.8 Max in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.8 Max leads 73.2 to 10.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 100% for Qwen3.8 Max.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.056.8
Released2024-02-292026-08-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—131K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$6
Results tracked3039

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Category by category

Coding Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Qwen3.8 Max: 53.5 (#29)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Coding12231502
DeepSWE—57.5%
LMArena WebDev—1674
FrontierSWE—17.8%
SciCode—53.2%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen3.8 Max: 45.4 (#14)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
APEX-Agents—63.3%
τ²-bench Banking—55.1%
GDP.pdf—23.2%

Reasoning Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Qwen3.8 Max: 54.4 (#26)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Hard Prompts11971496
DTBench53.6%92%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7156.41
NYT Connections (extended)—88.3%
CritPt—20%
Chess Puzzles—40%
Mystery Game Puzzles—38%
LMCA—46.2%
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Qwen3.8 Max: 73.2 (#20)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%100%
LMArena Math12131499
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—74.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
ProofBench—58%
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Qwen3.8 Max: 61.7 (#27)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
GPQA Diamond40.6%92.7%
LMArena Expert11731507
SimpleQA Verified—47.3%
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Qwen3.8 Max: 37.2 (#75)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Vision9841314
Furniture Assembly—20%

Multilingual Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Qwen3.8 Max: 56.7 (#18)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Non-English12051472
LMArena Chinese11891538
LMArena French12291503
LMArena German12041483
LMArena Japanese11311467
LMArena Korean11281461
LMArena Russian12271481
LMArena Spanish12041492

Instruction Following Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Qwen3.8 Max: 77.6 (#17)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Instruction Following11991479

Long Context Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Qwen3.8 Max: 45.6 (#31)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Longer Query12111489

Writing & Preference Qwen3.8 Max leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Qwen3.8 Max: 67.1 (#30)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen3.8 Max
LMArena Text12181483
LMArena Creative Writing11861479
LMArena Multi-Turn12271489

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen3.8 Max?

Qwen3.8 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.8 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen3.8 Max better for coding?

Qwen3.8 Max scores higher on coding benchmarks: 53.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen3.8 Max share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.8 Max has 39.

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