Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 4.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
Qwen2.5-VL 72B was created as the flagship vision-language model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced multimodal understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters optimized for visual and textual reasoning, it represents Qwen's most capable offering for tasks requiring integrated image and language processing.
3 months newer

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct