Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 3.7, released by Anthropic in February 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 3 family featuring hybrid reasoning with configurable extended thinking. It supports a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens (128K in beta), and native image understanding. Sonnet 3.7 targets complex coding, mathematics, and scientific reasoning tasks where extended chain-of-thought processing provides meaningful improvements in output quality.

Alibaba / Qwen

Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct is a 32-billion-parameter open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in September 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5 series trained on 18 trillion tokens. The model is positioned as a high-capability option for developers with access to multi-GPU setups or high-VRAM hardware, offering strong performance on coding, structured reasoning, and multilingual tasks while remaining fully open under Apache 2.0. Its 128K context window and support for structured output generation made it a popular choice for document processing and agentic workflows in the open-source community.