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Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024) vs Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024) · Anthropic, released 2024-10-22
Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25) · Alibaba, released 2025-01-25

“Epoch AI, 'AI Benchmarking Hub'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks' [online resource].” · epoch.ai/benchmarks · Licensed CC BY 4.0 · data last verified 2026-07-26 · Methodology · Data Sources

Head-to-head

Measured on 5 of 9 tracked benchmarks for both models — Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024) leads on 2, Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25) leads on 3.

Benchmark	Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024)	Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25)	Leads
Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI)	134.3	133.4	Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024)
SWE-bench Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
GPQA Diamond	0.553	0.561	Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25)
MATH Level 5	0.569	0.672	Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025	0.085	0.161	Qwen2.5-Max (Qwen 2025 01 25)
FrontierMath	0.021	0.010	Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Oct 2024)
FrontierMath Tier 4	0.000	Not measured	Not measured on both
SimpleQA Verified	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both
Chess Puzzles	Not measured	Not measured	Not measured on both

Benchmark results measure specific tasks and should not be treated as a universal measure of model quality. A model with no row here for a benchmark has not been measured on it — that is left blank, never estimated.

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