Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 1.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
Qwen2.5-VL 72B was created as the flagship vision-language model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced multimodal understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters optimized for visual and textual reasoning, it represents Qwen's most capable offering for tasks requiring integrated image and language processing.
3 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct