# Claude 2 vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 2

## Summary

- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 1 category and Qwen1.5-72B in 2 categories; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Qwen1.5-72B leads 30.7 to 8.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 34.7% for Claude 2 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 24.7 | 30.3 |
| Rank | 342 | 282 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | 59.1% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1166 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 20.8 (#213)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1148 |
| DTBench | 51.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.08 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 8.7 (#314)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | — |
| LMArena Math | — | 1164 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 17.0 (#282)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1136 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1186 |
| LMArena French | — | 1158 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1049 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1142 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1160 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Qwen1.5-72B is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.3 to 24.7 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Qwen1.5-72B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.