Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Updated October 21, 2026. 24 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct for coding: it scores 30.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 27.2 for Claude Opus 4.1.
Pick Claude Opus 4.1 when the context window is larger, 200K against 33K tokens, or when what matters is LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 24
- Claude Opus 4.1 only
- 47
- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct only
- 11
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct scores 30.5 against 27.2.
1 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 leads, 22.8 against 6.7.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.1 has a GPQA Diamond result, 76.3%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.1 has a AIME result, 78.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.1 has a MMLU Pro result, 87.9%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.1 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1177.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Opus 4.1
Claude Opus 4.1 takes 200K tokens against 33K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
Claude Opus 4.1 $0.052, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct $0.0012 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.1 27.2 from 1 benchmark, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 30.5 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 35.2 points apart on average over 11 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Text: entertainment and media: Claude Opus 4.1 1398 against Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 1150, 41.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.1 $75.00 against Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct $1.00 per million output tokens, 75.0x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 4.1 takes 200K tokens, Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 33K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.1 | Bars | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 11 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 16.4% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 47.0% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1390 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 66.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 29.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 38.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| WeirdML | 45.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Cybench | 42.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1479 | 1276 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1456 | 1261 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1399 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.8 | 6.7 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 144.1 | 119.5 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| METR time horizons | 66.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| GDPval | 43.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 48.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 77.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 41.7% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 3.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 77.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| SimpleBench | 60.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 21.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| EBR-bench | 7.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| VPCT | 35.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1442 | 1251 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1438 | 1221 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1451 | 1269 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 78.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 95.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 94.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 68.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 12.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 2.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| GSM8K | Not measured | 93.0% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1431 | 1251 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1434 | 1243 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 73.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 61.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 93.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 47.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 63.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| MMLU | Not measured | 79.1% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| AI2 Reasoning Challenge | Not measured | 70.5% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1422 | 1221 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1416 | 1187 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1421 | 1257 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1406 | 1224 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1177 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1164 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1172 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1166 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1153 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1171 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1152 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1167 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index110
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 31.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 73.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| DTBench | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMCA | 37.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 84.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| HellaSwag | Not measured | 83.0% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| WinoGrande | Not measured | 80.8% | Only Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text | 1419 | 1230 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1435 | 1223 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1412 | 1174 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1433 | 1248 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1405 | 1205 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1427 | 1222 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1413 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1377 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1381 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1433 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1448 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1422 | 1228 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1413 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1444 | 1222 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1455 | 1251 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1418 | 1191 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1398 | 1150 | Claude Opus 4.1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 22 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Opus 4.1 | Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | August 5, 2025 | November 11, 2024 |
| Context window | 200K | 33K |
| Input $/Mtok | $15.00 | $0.66 |
| Output $/Mtok | $75.00 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | 27.2 | 30.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct for coding?
Pick Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct for coding: it scores 30.5 on the Vibe Coding Index against 27.2 for Claude Opus 4.1. Pick Claude Opus 4.1 when the context window is larger, 200K against 33K tokens, or when what matters is LMArena Text: coding or LMArena Text: software and IT, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?
Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15.00 per million input tokens and $75.00 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct costs $0.66 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.1 or Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct?
Claude Opus 4.1, with 200K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.1 vs Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct comparison based on?
24 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Opus 4.1's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.