Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Claude Opus 4.5
78
Winner · 4/8 categoriesQwen3.5-27B
71
3/8 categoriesClaude Opus 4.5· Qwen3.5-27B
Pick Claude Opus 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen3.5-27B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 262K context window.
Claude Opus 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 78 to 71. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.5's sharpest advantage is in multimodal & grounded, where it averages 90.9 against 75. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SuperGPQA, 95% to 65.6%. Qwen3.5-27B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Qwen3.5-27B is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.5 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Qwen3.5-27B gives you the larger context window at 262K, compared with 200K for Claude Opus 4.5.
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| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Qwen3.5-27B |
|---|---|---|
| AgenticClaude Opus 4.5 wins | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% | 41.6% |
| BrowseComp | 73% | 61% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 68% | 56.2% |
| tau2-bench | — | 79% |
| CodingQwen3.5-27B wins | ||
| HumanEval | 91% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% | 72.4% |
| LiveCodeBench | 57% | 80.7% |
| SWE-bench Pro | 62% | — |
| Multimodal & GroundedClaude Opus 4.5 wins | ||
| MMMU-Pro | 94% | 75% |
| OfficeQA Pro | 87% | — |
| ReasoningClaude Opus 4.5 wins | ||
| MuSR | 93% | — |
| BBH | 87% | — |
| LongBench v2 | 82% | 60.6% |
| MRCRv2 | 81% | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 37.6% | — |
| KnowledgeQwen3.5-27B wins | ||
| MMLU | 90.8% | — |
| GPQA | 87% | 85.5% |
| SuperGPQA | 95% | 65.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | 86.1% |
| HLE | 20% | — |
| FrontierScience | 84% | — |
| SimpleQA | 95% | — |
| Instruction FollowingQwen3.5-27B wins | ||
| IFEval | 90% | 95% |
| MultilingualClaude Opus 4.5 wins | ||
| MGSM | 90% | — |
| MMLU-ProX | 84% | 82.2% |
| Mathematics | ||
| AIME 2023 | 99% | — |
| AIME 2024 | 99% | — |
| AIME 2025 | 98% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2023 | 95% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2024 | 97% | — |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 96% | — |
| BRUMO 2025 | 96% | — |
| MATH-500 | 89% | — |
Claude Opus 4.5 is ahead overall, 78 to 71. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SuperGPQA, where the scores are 95% and 65.6%.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 80.6 versus 71.7. Inside this category, SuperGPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 77.6 versus 64.4. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 60.6. Inside this category, LongBench v2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 51.6. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 90.9 versus 75. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Qwen3.5-27B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 95 versus 90. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.5 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 86.1 versus 82.2. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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