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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs QwQ-32B

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.1 to 14.8.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 58.1 to 14.8, ranking #3 overall.

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

Choose Claude Sonnet 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 58.1 and ranks #3 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2026

Choose QwQ-32B

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
QwQ-32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
58.1
#3
14.8
#239
Reasoning
56.6
#3
15.6
#230
Coding
48.9
#2
10.3
#171
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$10.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5
QwQ-32B
Math
36.9#34
18.1#188
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

47 reported for Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 7 for QwQ-32B

No common benchmarks found

Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32Bdon'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 Sonnet 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Sep 29 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas QwQ-32B does not.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

QwQ-32B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while QwQ-32B uses Apache 2.0.

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

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

QwQ-32B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was released on 2026-09-28, while QwQ-32B was released on 2025-03-05.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 19 months newer than QwQ-32B.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Sep 28, 2026

1 days ago

1.6yr newer
QwQ-32B

Mar 5, 2025

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while QwQ-32B has a cutoff of 2024-11-28.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has more recent training data (up to 2026-06-01), making it potentially better informed about events through that date compared to QwQ-32B (2024-11-28).

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Jun 2026

1.6 yr newer
QwQ-32B

Nov 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Run your own prompts against Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs QwQ-32B.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or QwQ-32B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.1 to 14.8. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is made by Anthropic and QwQ-32B 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 Sonnet 5.5 compare to QwQ-32B in benchmarks?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.3%, ArXivMath (with tools): 95.2%, Global-MMLU: 92.1%, MILU: 91.6%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 90.3%. QwQ-32B scores MATH-500: 90.6%, IFEval: 83.9%, AIME 2024: 79.5%, LiveBench: 73.1%, BFCL: 66.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and QwQ-32B 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 Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (58.1 vs 14.8), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QwQ-32B?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and QwQ-32B is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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