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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs QvQ-72B-Preview

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.0 to 7.9.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 58.0 to 7.9, ranking #3 overall.

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

Choose Claude Sonnet 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 58.0 and ranks #3 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 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 Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
58.0
#3
7.9
#290
Reasoning
56.6
#3
8.2
#284
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$10.00 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

3 shared
Index
Claude Sonnet 5.5
QvQ-72B-Preview
Math
36.9#34
9.6#255
Vision
40.0#3
6.3#154
Multimodal
40.1#2
9.6#125
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

47 reported for Claude Sonnet 5.5 · 4 for QvQ-72B-Preview

No common benchmarks found

Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 Sonnet 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Sonnet 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QvQ-72B-Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Sep 30 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QvQ-72B-Preview support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

QvQ-72B-Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 Sonnet 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

QvQ-72B-Preview

Qwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Sonnet 5.5 was released on 2026-09-28, while QvQ-72B-Preview was released on 2024-12-25.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 21 months newer than QvQ-72B-Preview.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Sep 28, 2026

1 days ago

1.8yr newer
QvQ-72B-Preview

Dec 25, 2024

1.8 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Sonnet 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while QvQ-72B-Preview's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Sonnet 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without QvQ-72B-Preview's cutoff date.

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Jun 2026

QvQ-72B-Preview

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Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QvQ-72B-Preview side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Sonnet 5.5
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QvQ-72B-Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs QvQ-72B-Preview.

Which is better, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or QvQ-72B-Preview?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 58.0 to 7.9. Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 Sonnet 5.5 compare to QvQ-72B-Preview in benchmarks?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores BenchCAD (with Python tool): 96.3%, ArXivMath (with tools): 95.2%, Global-MMLU: 92.1%, MILU: 91.6%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 90.3%. QvQ-72B-Preview scores MathVista: 71.4%, MMMU: 70.3%, MathVision: 35.9%, OlympiadBench: 20.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QvQ-72B-Preview?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 Sonnet 5.5 and QvQ-72B-Preview?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (58.0 vs 7.9), licensing (Proprietary vs Qwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Sonnet 5.5 and QvQ-72B-Preview?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and QvQ-72B-Preview is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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