Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen2-72B

Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

28.8

Rank #311 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen2-72B in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen2-72B leads 27.9 to 10.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 39.1% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index28.829.5
Released2024-02-292024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked3026

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.2 (#296), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
WeirdML10.2%11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%38.5%
LMArena Coding12231196
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%54%
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Qwen2-72B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 19.7 (#232), Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts11971191
Epoch Capabilities Index120.69125.27
DTBench53.6%—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Qwen2-72B leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.0 (#305), Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Math12131235
MATH Level 518.2%39.1%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—

Knowledge Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#271), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond40.6%40.8%
LMArena Expert11731171
MMLU75.9%82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: 24.7 (#120), Qwen2-72B: —

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Vision984—

Multilingual Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 38.0 (#229), Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English12051176
LMArena Chinese11881240
LMArena French12281169
LMArena German12041151
LMArena Japanese11311111
LMArena Korean11281083
LMArena Russian12271169
LMArena Spanish12041168

Instruction Following Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 63.1 (#230), Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following12001181

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#223), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query12111193

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Sonnet leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.3 (#233), Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetQwen2-72B
LMArena Text12181203
LMArena Creative Writing11861181
LMArena Multi-Turn12271195

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Qwen2-72B?

Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2-72B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (28.8 vs 29.5), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (29.2 vs 28.7); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Qwen2-72B share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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