Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 5.3% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 260.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $89.25 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
6 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together