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Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2 72B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct are closely matched at 9.9 and 5.8 on the LLM Stats Score.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 9.9 and 5.8.

In the 8 individual benchmarks reported for both models, Claude 3 Opus wins 7; 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 Opus

  • you value its reported benchmark strengths — it wins 7 of 8 exact shared results

Choose Qwen2 72B Instruct

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
9.9
#273
5.8
#300
Reasoning
9.8
#267
5.7
#296
Coding
5.1
#208
9.8
#174
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
7 of 8
1 of 8
Input price
$15.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$75.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude 3 Opus
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Math
16.1#211
11.0#247
Finance
14.3#129
7.9#158
Legal
14.3#113
6.1#151
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

11 reported for Claude 3 Opus · 17 for Qwen2 72B Instruct

8 shared

Claude 3 Opus outperforms in 7 benchmarks (ARC-C, GPQA, GSM8k, HellaSwag, MATH, MMLU, MMLU-Pro), while Qwen2 72B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (HumanEval).

Claude 3 Opus significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Fri Sep 25 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 Opus specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Opus specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Fri Sep 25 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude 3 Opus supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2 72B Instruct does not.

Claude 3 Opus can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Opus

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Opus is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2 72B Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

Claude 3 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Qwen2 72B Instruct is 5 months newer than Claude 3 Opus.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.6 years ago

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

2.2 years ago

4mo 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 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3 Opus
✓ Preferred
Qwen2 72B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2 72B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 9.9 and 5.8. Claude 3 Opus is made by Anthropic and Qwen2 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 Opus compare to Qwen2 72B Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3 Opus scores ARC-C: 96.4%, HellaSwag: 95.4%, GSM8k: 95.0%, MGSM: 90.7%, BIG-Bench Hard: 86.8%. Qwen2 72B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.1%, CMMLU: 90.1%, HellaSwag: 87.6%, HumanEval: 86.0%, Winogrande: 85.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus supports 200K tokens and Qwen2 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 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (9.9 vs 5.8), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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