Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 26.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 188.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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