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Claude 2 vs Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

Claude 2 vs Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.

Verdict

Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 2 can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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Claude 2
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Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct
Overview
Claude 2 was released 14 months before Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct.
Claude 2
Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct
Provider
The entity that provides this model.
Anthropic
Qwen
Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
100K
tokens
129,024
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
Not specified.
8,192
tokens
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2023-07-11
2024-09-19
Leaderboard
Claude 2
Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct
Rank
22
Unknown
Arena Elo
1132
Not specified.
95% CI
+4/-5
Not specified.
Votes
13413
Not specified.
License
Proprietary
Not specified.
Knowledge Cutoff
Unknown
Unknown
Pricing
Claude 2
Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$8.00
per million tokens
$0.13
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$24.00
per million tokens
$0.40
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 2 and Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct Instruct.
Claude 2
Qwen2.5-72b-Instruct
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
78.5
(5-shot)
Source
Benchmark not available.
MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.
HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
Benchmark not available.
Benchmark not available.

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