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Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct are closely matched at 16.0 and 14.5 on the LLM Stats Score.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 16.0 and 14.5.

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

Choose Claude 3.5 Sonnet

  • you want predictable pricing at $3.00/M input and $15.00/M output

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2024
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
16.0
#214
14.5
#224
Reasoning
16.1
#206
11.9
#239
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$3.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$15.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Individual benchmarks

9 reported for Claude 3.5 Sonnet · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-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 Sonnet specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Sonnet specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mon Sep 07 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2-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 Sonnet

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released on 2024-06-21, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is 2 months newer than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Jun 21, 2024

2.2 years ago

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

2mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct's training data extends to 2023-06-30, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3.5 Sonnet's cutoff date.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

—

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
✓ Preferred
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 16.0 and 14.5. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is made by Anthropic and Qwen2-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 Sonnet compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores GSM8k: 96.4%, BIG-Bench Hard: 93.1%, HumanEval: 92.0%, MGSM: 91.6%, MMLU: 90.4%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench: 86.5%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports 200K tokens and Qwen2-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 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (16.0 vs 14.5), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

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

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