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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 14.5 to 1.9.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the overall LLM Stats Score 14.5 to 1.9, ranking #224 overall.

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

Choose Claude 3 Sonnet

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

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

  • overall performance matters — it scores 14.5 and ranks #224 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • 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 Sonnet
Anthropic
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
1.9
#307
14.5
#224
Reasoning
1.8
#296
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

11 reported for Claude 3 Sonnet · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Claude 3 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 Sonnet specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Sonnet specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sat Sep 05 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude 3 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 Sonnet

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 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 Sonnet

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Sonnet was released on 2024-02-29, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is 6 months newer than Claude 3 Sonnet.

Claude 3 Sonnet

Feb 29, 2024

2.5 years ago

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

6mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Claude 3 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 Sonnet's cutoff date.

Claude 3 Sonnet

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3 Sonnet
✓ Preferred
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 14.5 to 1.9. Claude 3 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 Sonnet compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Claude 3 Sonnet scores ARC-C: 93.2%, GSM8k: 92.3%, HellaSwag: 89.0%, MGSM: 83.5%, BIG-Bench Hard: 82.9%. 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 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Claude 3 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 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (1.9 vs 14.5), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

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

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