Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.1 leads with 31.9% higher average benchmark score. Claude Opus 4.1 offers 92.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $89.25 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Opus 4.1 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.1 represents an iteration within the Claude 4 Opus line, built to deliver refined performance in complex reasoning and analysis tasks. Developed as part of Anthropic's flagship tier, it incorporates improvements to the foundational capabilities that define the Opus family of models.
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.
10 months newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
2025-08-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Opus 4.1

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

Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Claude Opus 4.1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together