Model comparison

Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic

39.5

Rank #164 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads 34.1 to 18.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OSWorld: 35.8% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 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 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct specifications
Claude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index39.529.9
Released2025-02-242024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked586

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
SWE-bench Verified61%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)52.8%—
Aider Polyglot64.9%—
GSO3.8%—
LiveBench Coding74.5%—
LMArena Coding1361—
CadEval54%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld35.8%5%
TheAgentCompany30.9%—
Cybench20%—
DeepResearch Bench43.6%—
METR Time Horizons60%—

Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ARC-AGI-20.9%—
SimpleBench46.4%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
ARC-AGI-128.6%—
EnigmaEval4.2%—
LiveBench Reasoning87.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1333—
LiveBench Data Analysis74%—
Epoch Capabilities Index141.16—
ForecastBench61.8—
LiveBench76.1%—

Math Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202557.8%—
Omni-MATH33%—
LiveBench Math79%—
LMArena Math1337—
MATH Level 591.2%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond79.7%—
Humanity's Last Exam8%—
MMLU-Pro78.4%—
Confabulations14.7%—
GPQA (HELM)60.8%—
LMArena Expert1321—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision11691107
GeoBench68%62%
SpatialViz-Bench33.9%33.3%
Video-MME—73.5%
VPCT39%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1296—
LMArena Chinese1299—
LMArena French1303—
LMArena German1301—
LMArena Japanese1267—
LMArena Korean1249—
LMArena Russian1311—
LMArena Spanish1298—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following81.3%—
IFEval83.4%—
LMArena Instruction Following1352—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench83.3%—
LMArena Longer Query1373—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.7 SonnetQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1314—
LMArena Creative Writing1332—
Short-Story Creative Writing81.1%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1412—
WildBench81.4%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1339—
LiveBench Language59.9%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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