# Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 18

## Summary

- They share 18 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 Sonnet 5 leads 55.6 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 54.6 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 29 | 285 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1165 |
| DeepSWE | 53.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 42.7% | — |
| CursorBench | 34.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1541 | — |
| SciCode | 54.3% | — |
| GSO | 37.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 68.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,463 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 54.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1194 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,378 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | 1148 |
| SimpleBench | 60.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 75.1% | — |
| CritPt | 16.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 35% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 35% | — |
| DTBench | 92.5% | — |
| LMCA | 50% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 60% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.21 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | — |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1467 | 1164 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 65.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.7% | — |
| ProofBench | 77% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.6 (#47)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1490 | 1136 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1274 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1466 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1477 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1440 | 1084 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 1061 |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1451 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1437 | 1110 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1452 | 1141 |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1463 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1442 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1454 | 1160 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1794 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1236 | — |

## FAQ

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

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

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

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

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

18 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.