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Claude Opus 5 vs QvQ-72B-Preview

Claude Opus 5 leads the LLM Stats Score 54.9 to 7.9.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Opus 5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 54.9 to 7.9, ranking #5 overall.

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

Choose Claude Opus 5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 54.9 and ranks #5 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jul 2026

Choose QvQ-72B-Preview

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Opus 5
Anthropic
QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
54.9
#5
7.9
#281
Reasoning
53.9
#4
8.2
#274
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
$5.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$25.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Opus 5
QvQ-72B-Preview
Vision
37.9#4
6.3#147
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

13 reported for Claude Opus 5 · 4 for QvQ-72B-Preview

No common benchmarks found

Claude Opus 5 and QvQ-72B-Previewdon'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 Opus 5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Opus 5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Opus 5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QvQ-72B-Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sun Sep 13 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Opus 5 and QvQ-72B-Preview support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude Opus 5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

QvQ-72B-Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Opus 5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while QvQ-72B-Preview uses Qwen.

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

Claude Opus 5

Proprietary

Closed source

QvQ-72B-Preview

Qwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Opus 5 was released on 2026-07-24, while QvQ-72B-Preview was released on 2024-12-25.

Claude Opus 5 is 19 months newer than QvQ-72B-Preview.

Claude Opus 5

Jul 24, 2026

1 months ago

1.6yr newer
QvQ-72B-Preview

Dec 25, 2024

1.7 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 Opus 5 and QvQ-72B-Preview side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Opus 5 vs QvQ-72B-Preview.

Which is better, Claude Opus 5 or QvQ-72B-Preview?

Claude Opus 5 leads the LLM Stats Score 54.9 to 7.9. Claude Opus 5 is made by Anthropic and QvQ-72B-Preview 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 Opus 5 compare to QvQ-72B-Preview in benchmarks?

Claude Opus 5 scores BrowseComp: 90.8%, BioMysteryBench: 90.1%, OSWorld 2.0: 70.6%, DeepSWE 1.1: 68.8%, Humanity's Last Exam: 64.7%. QvQ-72B-Preview scores MathVista: 71.4%, MMMU: 70.3%, MathVision: 35.9%, OlympiadBench: 20.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Opus 5 and QvQ-72B-Preview?

Claude Opus 5 supports 1.0M tokens and QvQ-72B-Preview 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 Opus 5 and QvQ-72B-Preview?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (54.9 vs 7.9), licensing (Proprietary vs Qwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Opus 5 and QvQ-72B-Preview?

Claude Opus 5 is developed by Anthropic and QvQ-72B-Preview is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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