Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2-72B
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2-72B leads 30.2 to 14.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 30.7% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 11.3% for Qwen2-72B.
- Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 29.2 | 30.0 |
| Released | 2024-10-22 | 2024-06-07 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 49 | 26 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 30.7% | 11.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | 38.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1196 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59% | 54% |
| Aider Polyglot | 28% | — |
| SciCode | 27.4% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 51.4% | — |
| CadEval | 32% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 1.1% |
| BALROG | 19.3% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.9% |
Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1251 | 1191 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 127.15 | 125.28 |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 28.1% | — |
| DTBench | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 48.5% | — |
| LiveBench | 43.5% | — |
Math Qwen2-72B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1244 | 1235 |
| MATH Level 5 | 46.4% | 39.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.3% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 22.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 35.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.3% | — |
Knowledge Qwen2-72B leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 38.1% | 40.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1208 | 1171 |
| MMLU | 74.3% | 82.4% |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 36.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.3% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Qwen2-72B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1092 | — |
| GeoBench | 34% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1238 | 1176 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1229 | 1240 |
| LMArena French | 1264 | 1170 |
| LMArena German | 1237 | 1151 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1175 | 1111 |
| LMArena Korean | 1173 | 1083 |
| LMArena Russian | 1253 | 1169 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1261 | 1169 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1241 | 1181 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 61.9% | — |
| IFEval | 79.2% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1261 | 1192 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Haiku leads
Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1255 | 1203 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1233 | 1181 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1265 | 1196 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 73.5% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1146 | — |
| WildBench | 76% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 35.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Qwen2-72B?
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.2 vs 30.0), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen2-72B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2-72B share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.