Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen1.5-72B

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 39.8 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 79.7% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.530.8
Released2025-02-242024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
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Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
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Results tracked5822

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding13611165
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
CadEval54%—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts13331148
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math13371164
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond79.7%28.8%
LMArena Expert13211136
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English12961135
LMArena Chinese12991186
LMArena French13031159
LMArena German13011084
LMArena Japanese12671061
LMArena Korean12491050
LMArena Russian13111104
LMArena Spanish12981110

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following13521141
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—

Long Context Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query13731157
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text13141166
LMArena Creative Writing13321137
LMArena Multi-Turn13391160
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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