Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads with 10.7% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 124.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is $17.40 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a multimodal language model developed by Anthropic. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 75.8% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MMMLU (89.1%), AIME 2025 (87.0%), TAU-bench Retail (86.2%). It supports a 264K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 2 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
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 65.6% across 14 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (91.6%), MT-Bench (87.5%), HumanEval (84.8%). It supports a 139K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 1 API provider. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2024, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 22 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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