Large 72B model from the Qwen 2.5 generation.
Anthropic's fifth-generation Sonnet — near-Opus intelligence at Sonnet speed and price.
No shared demos for these models yet.
No captured outputs for these models yet.
Based on the Capability Index, Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher (80.1 vs 62.8). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Qwen2.5 72B has a lower blended cost. Qwen2.5 72B: $0.36 input / $0.40 output. Claude Sonnet 5: $2.00 input / $10.00 output.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a larger context window: Qwen2.5 72B supports 33K tokens vs Claude Sonnet 5 at 1M tokens.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision/image input, but Qwen2.5 72B does not.
Key differences: Claude Sonnet 5 has a notably higher capability index (17.3 point gap); Qwen2.5 72B is significantly cheaper; only Claude Sonnet 5 supports vision input; only Claude Sonnet 5 offers extended reasoning mode. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Qwen2.5 72B and Claude Sonnet 5 for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.