Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 52.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available on 2 providers. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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.
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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Qwen2.5 VL 72B 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 VL 72B Instruct

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct