Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads with 35.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.7 Sonnet offers 188.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is $17.40 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.7 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet represents Anthropic's first hybrid reasoning model, capable of producing near-instant responses or extended step-by-step thinking that is visible to users. Developed with particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development, it allows users to control thinking budgets and balances real-world task performance with reasoning capabilities for enterprise applications.
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.
5 months newer

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
2025-02-24
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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