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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 13.2 to 5.8.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads the overall LLM Stats Score 13.2 to 5.8, ranking #227 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.80/M input and $4.00/M output

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

  • overall performance matters — it scores 13.2 and ranks #227 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jan 2025
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
5.8
#276
13.2
#227
Reasoning
6.0
#274
13.2
#221
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
$0.80 / M
— / M
Output price
$4.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Math
10.9#234
8.0#248
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

9 reported for Claude 3.5 Haiku · 30 for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sat Aug 29 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Claude 3.5 Haiku does not.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is 3 months newer than Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.8 years ago

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.6 years ago

3mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3.5 Haiku
✓ Preferred
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 13.2 to 5.8. Claude 3.5 Haiku is made by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude 3.5 Haiku compare to Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores HumanEval: 88.1%, MGSM: 85.6%, DROP: 83.1%, MATH: 69.4%, MMLU-Pro: 65.0%. Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct scores DocVQA: 96.4%, Android Control Low_EM: 93.7%, ChartQA: 89.5%, OCRBench: 88.5%, AI2D: 88.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Haiku supports 200K tokens and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (5.8 vs 13.2), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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