Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Qwen1.5-72B

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 18 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic

50.1

Rank #42 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.3

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.6 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 Sonnet 4.6 leads 51.6 to 11.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 87.4% for Claude Sonnet 4.6 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
  • Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.130.3
Released2026-02-172024-02-04
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$3—
Output $ / M tokens$15—
Results tracked5722

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.0 (#62), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Coding15041166
SWE-bench Verified75.2%—
DeepSWE29.9%—
FrontierCode24.3%—
LMArena WebDev1521—
SciCode46.8%—
WeirdML66.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—33.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—40.3%
ALE-Bench1,327—
HumanEval+—59.1%
MBPP+—61.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 39.1 (#26), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
Terminal-Bench53.4%—
APEX-Agents43%—
OSWorld 2.09.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.9%—
OSWorld72.1%—
ExploitBench23.6%—
GBAEval48.8%—
GDP.pdf18%—
LMArena Search1221—
Vending-Bench 27,204—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 46.1 (#40), Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14851148
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)80.9%—
ARC-AGI-186.5%—
CritPt3.1%—
Chess Puzzles13%—
Thematic Generalization76.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles16%—
DTBench89.9%—
LMCA46.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.25—
ForecastBench62—

Math Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.9 (#41), Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Math14631164
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202585.8%—
ProofBench45%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)8.3%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 51.6 (#60), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
GPQA Diamond87.4%28.8%
LMArena Expert15001136
SimpleQA Verified35.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.6%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 38.0 (#61), Qwen1.5-72B: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Vision1283—
Blueprint-Bench 26.7%—
LMArena Document1482—

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 54.6 (#39), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Non-English14401135
LMArena Chinese14911186
LMArena French14651158
LMArena German14281084
LMArena Japanese14191061
LMArena Korean14111049
LMArena Russian14401104
LMArena Spanish14651110

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 77.6 (#23), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14761142

Long Context Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 45.3 (#40), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Longer Query14791157

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.6: 70.4 (#22), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.6Qwen1.5-72B
LMArena Text14581166
LMArena Creative Writing14351137
LMArena Multi-Turn14641160
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1810—
EQ-Bench 41207—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.1 to 30.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.6 or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.0 versus 31.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.

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