Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is 16.7× cheaper per million tokens (blended). Claude Opus 5 has the larger context window (1,000,000 vs 128,000 tokens, 7.8×). Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is open-weights; the other is not.
Claude Opus 5 vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
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Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · anthropic__claude-opus-5
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instructopen
Qwen · qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct
Identity
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Slug | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct |
| Status | live | live |
| Open weights | No | Yes |
| License | — | — |
| HuggingFace | — | Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct |
Quality
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Quality index (0–100) | 91.5 | — |
Cost
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Input $ / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.80 |
| Cached input $ / 1M | $0.50 | $0.40 |
| Output $ / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $1.00 |
Context
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Max context tokens | 1,000,000 | 128,000 |
| Max output tokens | 128,000 | 115,200 |
Modalities
| Field | anthropic__claude-opus-5 | qwen__qwen2.5-vl-72b-instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Input | text, image, file | text, image |
| Output | text | text |