Noometry

Model comparison

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

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.5

Rank #26 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.4

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 3 categories and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 48.2 to 20.0.
  • Both cost about the same: $2 input and $10 output per million tokens.
  • Claude Sonnet 5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index54.529.4
Released2026-06-292024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output128K8K
Input $ / M tokens$2$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$10$8.40
Results tracked516

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1540—
SciCode53.6%—
GSO37.3%—
WeirdML68.8%—
LMArena Coding1483—
ALE-Bench1,463—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
APEX-Agents54.5%—
OSWorld—5%
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
SimpleBench60.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%—
CritPt16.9%—
Chess Puzzles35%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1461—
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
DTBench92.5%—
LMCA50%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.34—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%—
ProofBench77%—
LMArena Math1467—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
LMArena Expert1491—

Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision12751107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1431—
LMArena Chinese1475—
LMArena French1457—
LMArena German1448—
LMArena Japanese1422—
LMArena Korean1411—
LMArena Russian1452—
LMArena Spanish1436—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1453—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1464—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1443—
LMArena Creative Writing1416—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794—
EQ-Bench 41236—
LMArena Multi-Turn1454—

Frequently asked questions

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

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Claude Sonnet 5 is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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