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Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Claude Opus 5 leads the LLM Stats Score 54.9 to 20.3.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Opus 5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 54.9 to 20.3, ranking #5 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Opus 5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 54.9 and ranks #5 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and agents — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jul 2026

Choose Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
54.9
#5
20.3
#194
Reasoning
53.9
#4
19.2
#200
Agents
40.0
#7
9.6
#122
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
$5.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$25.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Opus 5
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
Vision
37.9#4
14.9#90
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

13 reported for Claude Opus 5 · 45 for Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Opus 5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Opus 5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Opus 5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sat Sep 12 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude Opus 5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Opus 5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude Opus 5

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Opus 5 was released on 2026-07-24, while Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct was released on 2025-09-22.

Claude Opus 5 is 10 months newer than Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct.

Claude Opus 5

Jul 24, 2026

1 months ago

10mo newer
Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

Sep 22, 2025

11 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude Opus 5 or Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct?

Claude Opus 5 leads the LLM Stats Score 54.9 to 20.3. Claude Opus 5 is made by Anthropic and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Opus 5 compare to Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude Opus 5 scores BrowseComp: 90.8%, BioMysteryBench: 90.1%, OSWorld 2.0: 70.6%, DeepSWE 1.1: 68.8%, Humanity's Last Exam: 64.7%. Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.9%, ScreenSpot: 95.8%, CharXiv-D: 90.5%, MMLU-Redux: 89.8%, AI2D: 89.5%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct?

Claude Opus 5 supports 1.0M tokens and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (54.9 vs 20.3), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Opus 5 and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct?

Claude Opus 5 is developed by Anthropic and Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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