Claude 2vsQwen3-Coder-Next
Claude 2 | Qwen3-Coder-Next | |
|---|---|---|
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | 80B |
Context window | 100k | 256k |
| Benchmarks | ||
Agentic coding SWE-Bench ProCan the AI fix real bugs in real software? It's handed actual problems from open-source projects and has to write code that genuinely solves them. Higher is better. | — | 44.3% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | — | 70.6% |
Multilingual coding SWE-Bench MultilingualLike SWE-Bench, but the coding problems span many programming languages, not just one. Tests how broadly the AI can code. Higher is better. | — | 62.8% |
Function synthesis HumanEval164 small Python problems: the AI is given a function's description and has to write the working function. This was the coding benchmark of the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 era, before the field moved to fixing real bugs in real repositories. Higher is better. | 71.2% | — |
Agentic terminal coding Terminal-Bench 2.0Can the AI work in a command-line terminal — running commands and finishing technical setup tasks the way a developer would? (Version 2.0 of the test.) Higher is better. | — | 36.2% |
General knowledge MMLUA 57-subject multiple-choice exam — history, law, medicine, maths — that was the standard measure of how much a model knows from 2020 until roughly 2024, when frontier scores crowded into the high 80s and labs moved on to harder tests. The scores here were published years apart under different testing setups, so read them as a historical record rather than a like-for-like ranking. Higher is better. | 78.5% | — |
Grade-school math GSM8KGrade-school maths word problems that take a few steps of arithmetic to work through. It separated the models of 2022 and 2023 sharply, then saturated. One caveat on the historical numbers: OpenAI included part of the GSM8K training set in GPT-4's pre-training mix, so GPT-4's score is not a clean few-shot result. Higher is better. | 88% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Release date | Jul 11 2023 | Feb 3 2026 |
| Access | Proprietary | Open Weight |
Which is better: Claude 2 or Qwen3-Coder-Next?
Claude 2 and Qwen3-Coder-Next don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. Claude 2 shipped 938 days before Qwen3-Coder-Next, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Context windows are 100k (Claude 2) vs 256k (Qwen3-Coder-Next). Claude 2 is proprietary, while Qwen3-Coder-Next is open weight.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Claude 2 and Qwen3-Coder-Next don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 2 was released by Anthropic on Jul 11 2023.
Qwen3-Coder-Next was released by Qwen on Feb 3 2026.
Claude 2 has a 100k context window; Qwen3-Coder-Next has 256k.
Claude 2 is a proprietary model released by Anthropic. Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open weight model released by Qwen.