Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 4 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads 27.0 to 15.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 49.1% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct.
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.40 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $5.60 |
| Results tracked | 7 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 16% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1292 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.9% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 62.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 129 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 57.5 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1271 |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 79.8% |
| HellaSwag | — | 84.8% |
| PIQA | — | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 82.3% |
Math Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |
Knowledge Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 49.1% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 85.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1245 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 94.5% |
| TriviaQA | — | 71.9% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1272 |
| LMArena French | — | 1280 |
| LMArena German | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1256 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1254 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1282 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1221 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1272 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?
7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.