Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Opus leads with 17.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3 Opus 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 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
6 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

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

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct