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Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct are closely matched at 10.4 and 13.2 on the LLM Stats Score.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 10.4 and 13.2.

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

Choose Claude 3 Opus

  • you want predictable pricing at $15.00/M input and $75.00/M output

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

  • 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 Opus
Anthropic
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
10.4
#246
13.2
#227
Reasoning
10.3
#240
13.2
#221
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
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

1 shared
Index
Claude 3 Opus
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Math
16.4#193
8.0#248
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

11 reported for Claude 3 Opus · 30 for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3 Opus 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 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
Qwen2.5 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 Opus 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 Opus

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is 11 months newer than Claude 3 Opus.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.5 years ago

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.6 years ago

11mo 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 Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3 Opus
✓ Preferred
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3 Opus vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3 Opus or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 10.4 and 13.2. Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus compare to Qwen2.5 VL 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%. Qwen2.5 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 Opus and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus 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 Opus and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (10.4 vs 13.2), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3 Opus and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Claude 3 Opus is developed by Anthropic and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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