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Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads the LLM Stats Score 24.2 to 13.2.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads the overall LLM Stats Score 24.2 to 13.2, ranking #153 overall.

In the 1 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 1; this is a narrower head-to-head signal than the composite indexes.

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

Choose Claude 3.7 Sonnet

  • overall performance matters — it scores 24.2 and ranks #153 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 1 of 1 exact shared results
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Feb 2025

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Anthropic
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
24.2
#153
13.2
#227
Reasoning
23.3
#151
13.2
#221
Agents
5.3
#137
5.5
#134
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
1 of 1
0 of 1
Input price
$3.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$15.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Math
16.8#188
8.0#248
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

11 reported for Claude 3.7 Sonnet · 30 for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

1 shared

Claude 3.7 Sonnet outperforms in 1 benchmarks (MMMU), while Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Sat Aug 29 2026 • llm-stats.com

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3.7 Sonnet specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.7 Sonnet specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input200,000 tokens
Output128,000 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

Both Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.7 Sonnet 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 3.7 Sonnet

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.7 Sonnet was released on 2025-02-24, while Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is 1 month newer than Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Feb 24, 2025

1.5 years ago

4w newer
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.6 years ago

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 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3.7 Sonnet
✓ Preferred
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet leads the LLM Stats Score 24.2 to 13.2. Claude 3.7 Sonnet 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 3.7 Sonnet compare to Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores MATH-500: 96.2%, IFEval: 93.2%, MMMLU: 86.1%, GPQA: 84.8%, TAU-bench Retail: 81.2%. 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 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet 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 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (24.2 vs 13.2), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3.7 Sonnet is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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