Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen3 Max

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Qwen3 Max Alibaba (Qwen)

43.7

Rank #87 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 Max in 3 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3 Max leads 38.7 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Mystery Game Puzzles: 21% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 5% for Qwen3 Max.
  • Qwen3 Max is cheaper at $1.20 / $6 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Qwen3 Max accepts more context: 262K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index41.043.7
Released2025-08-052025-09-23
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K262K
Max output32K66K
Input $ / M tokens$15$1.20
Output $ / M tokens$75$6
Results tracked4833

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Qwen3 Max: 43.0 (#93)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
LMArena Coding14791456
ALE-Bench674.77370.45
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
WeirdML45.9%—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—
Vending-Bench 2—71.56

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Qwen3 Max: 22.6 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
Chess Puzzles7%4%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431448
Mystery Game Puzzles21%5%
DTBench80%82.1%
LMCA37.1%28.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12142.38
SimpleBench60%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—72.5%
NYT Connections (extended)—30.1%
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
ForecastBench62—

Math Qwen3 Max leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Qwen3 Max: 38.7 (#131)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%18.9%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%73.3%
LMArena Math14311446
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
MATH Level 5—97.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Qwen3 Max leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Qwen3 Max: 48.1 (#78)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
GPQA Diamond77.3%72.6%
LMArena Expert14391455
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
SimpleQA Verified—48.7%
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Qwen3 Max: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Qwen3 Max leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Qwen3 Max: 53.7 (#62)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
LMArena Non-English14051429
LMArena Chinese14271478
LMArena French14311449
LMArena German14131463
LMArena Japanese13781397
LMArena Korean13801399
LMArena Russian14221428
LMArena Spanish14481462

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Qwen3 Max: 74.8 (#87)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
LMArena Instruction Following14351419

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Qwen3 Max: 41.6 (#134)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
LMArena Longer Query14551438
Fiction.LiveBench—66.7%
CL-bench—14.5%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Qwen3 Max: 62.4 (#76)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Qwen3 Max
LMArena Text14191439
LMArena Creative Writing14121402
LMArena Multi-Turn14441446
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.7 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen3 Max?

Qwen3 Max is cheaper. It lists at $1.20 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen3 Max better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 43.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3 Max does, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen3 Max share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 Max has 33.

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