Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.0

Rank #320 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 37.5 to 12.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 57.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 2.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.529.0
Released2025-02-242024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.17
Output $ / M tokens—$0.70
Results tracked5815

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 36.5 (#208)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—37.6%
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
BigCodeBench Complete—46.1%
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.8 (#124)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
OSWorld35.8%—
BALROG—7.8%
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.8 (#322)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16118.51
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
DTBench—47.7%
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
LMCA—6.4%
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 12.6 (#306)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%2.5%
Omni-MATH33%29.4%
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1337—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#286)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond79.7%35.5%
MMLU-Pro78.4%53.9%
GPQA (HELM)60.8%34.1%
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
Confabulations14.7%—
LMArena Expert1321—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1169—
GeoBench68%—
VPCT39%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.2 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval83.4%74.1%
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#195)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench81.4%73.1%
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.6 versus 36.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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