Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#18); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.3—
Released2026-02-042024-09-18
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked686

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#15), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1546—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1535—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.0 (#4), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.7 (#21), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
Epoch Capabilities Index155.36112.93
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
ForecastBench60—
HellaSwag—76.8%
WinoGrande—72.9%

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 62.7 (#25), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
LMArena Math1517—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—
GSM8K—86.7%

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.8 (#23), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—
ARC (AI2) Challenge—60.9%
MMLU—68%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.0 (#67), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 58.2 (#4), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Non-English1490—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1504—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1465—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1512—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.7 (#3), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.7 (#9), Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)
LMArena Text1504—
LMArena Creative Writing1506—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1514—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#18); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.

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