Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 32.3 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Video-MME: 60% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 73.5% for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index34.629.9
Released2024-06-202024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked606

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
OSWorld—5%
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
SimpleBench41.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%—
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond55.3%—
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision11251107
Video-MME60%73.5%
GeoBench62%62%
VPCT33%—
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.6 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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