Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Opus leads with 2.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus offers 260.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is $89.40 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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 7B was created as an efficient instruction-tuned model, designed to provide capable performance with just 7 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring reliable language understanding with minimal computational overhead, it serves as an accessible entry point to the Qwen 2.5 family.
6 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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