Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Qwen2-72B

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 62.6 to 21.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is WeirdML: 76.4% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 11.3% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7 and Qwen2-72B specifications
Claude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.330.0
Released2026-04-142024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6626

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
WeirdML76.4%11.3%
LMArena Coding15181196
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
LMArena WebDev1558—
SciCode54.5%—
GSO44.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
MirrorCode31.1%—
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench1,323—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
APEX-Agents49.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
GDP.pdf21%—
LMArena Search1233—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts15061191
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25125.28
ARC-AGI-275.8%—
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
NYT Connections (extended)39%—
ARC-AGI-193.5%—
CritPt12%—
Chess Puzzles30%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
Mystery Game Puzzles28%—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA52.2%—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond90.2%40.8%
LMArena Expert15211171
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Qwen2-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English14801176
LMArena Chinese15311240
LMArena French15031170
LMArena German14951151
LMArena Japanese14721111
LMArena Korean14641083
LMArena Russian14941169
LMArena Spanish14951169

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14981181

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query15051192

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Qwen2-72B
LMArena Text14901203
LMArena Creative Writing14861181
LMArena Multi-Turn15051196
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1914—
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Qwen2-72B?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Qwen2-72B share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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