Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2 72B Instruct leads with 26.8% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Opus 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 64.6% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (88.8%), TAU-bench Retail (81.4%), GPQA (79.6%). It supports a 328K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 4 API providers. As a multimodal model, it can process and understand text, images, and other input formats seamlessly. Released in 2025, it represents Anthropic's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.6% across 17 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (91.1%), CMMLU (90.1%), HellaSwag (87.6%). Released in 2024, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23
Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 25 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval
Claude Opus 4
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Claude Opus 4
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Qwen2 72B Instruct