Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #47 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 56.5 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 86% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen1.5-72B specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.530.8
Released2025-11-012024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6922

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.8 (#27), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding15041165
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1494—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
WeirdML63.7%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.3 (#12), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
Cybench82%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
BALROG43.5%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.6 (#51), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14761148
ARC-AGI-237.6%—
SimpleBench62%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA44.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index150.09—
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.6 (#132), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14631164
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%—
ProofBench36%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.5 (#44), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond86%28.8%
LMArena Expert14871136
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%—
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.4 (#107), Qwen1.5-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.3 (#47), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14381135
LMArena Chinese14701186
LMArena French14711159
LMArena German14491084
LMArena Japanese14161061
LMArena Korean14241050
LMArena Russian14471104
LMArena Spanish14581110

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.5 (#19), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14781141

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.5 (#22), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14801157
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.1 (#28), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14511166
LMArena Creative Writing14451137
LMArena Multi-Turn14661160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 54.8 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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