Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 5.5% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 260.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
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.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together