Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.7

Rank #4 Confirmed

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

37.7

Rank #186 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.1 to 24.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 91.8% for Claude Opus 5 and 41.2% for Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper at $1.50 / $7.50 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
  • Claude Opus 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index67.737.7
Released2026-07-242025-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$5$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$25$7.50
Results tracked5725

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.0 (#5), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.2 (#199)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena WebDev16941275
WeirdML91.8%41.2%
LMArena Coding15331413
ALE-Bench2,165461.45
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—55.4%
CursorBench46.6%—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
GSO—4.9%
AlgoTune—1.44

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 55.5 (#1), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 23.7 (#116)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
Terminal-Bench—27.2%
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.1 (#3), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 24.7 (#141)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Hard Prompts15251372
ARC-AGI-290.4%—
SimpleBench80.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—49.5%
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
DTBench97.9%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
Epoch Capabilities Index162.67—

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.1 (#6), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 34.9 (#151)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Math15331364
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%—
ProofBench99%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#8), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 36.4 (#159)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Expert15581337
GPQA Diamond93.9%—
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 5: 51.1 (#6), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Vision1321—
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#3), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 47.8 (#143)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Non-English15001345
LMArena Chinese15751356
LMArena French15221394
LMArena German15221324
LMArena Japanese15101309
LMArena Korean15261307
LMArena Russian15071367
LMArena Spanish15191360

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#5), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 71.8 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following15161356

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#20), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 42.0 (#126)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query15161379

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.3 (#2), Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct: 55.5 (#142)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct
LMArena Text15061356
LMArena Creative Writing14911333
LMArena Multi-Turn14961365
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.7 to 37.7 on the Noometry Index. Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct costs 3.3× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct?

Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 5 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.0 versus 36.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 5 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Coder 480B-A35B Instruct has 25.

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