Model Comparison

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet outperforms in 1 benchmarks (ChartQA), while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

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).

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Input- tokens

Output- tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

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 2024-10-22, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Oct 22, 2024

1.6 years ago

1mo newer

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

1.7 years ago

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

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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Anthropic

Larger context window (200,000 tokens)

Higher ChartQA score (90.8% vs 88.3%)

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Has open weights

Detailed Comparison

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

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 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. 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 benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.

How does Claude 3.5 Sonnet compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores GSM8k: 96.4%, DocVQA: 95.2%, AI2D: 94.7%, HumanEval: 93.7%, BIG-Bench Hard: 93.1%. 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 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.