Claude Sonnet 5 vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
model vs model · prices as of
Claude Sonnet 5 takes 3 of 5 rounds against Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct counters on price: $2.80 per million tokens against $16, for 131k context instead of 1M.
Anthropicwins 3 roundsClaude Sonnet 5
$16/M tokens
Anthropic list price, nothing below it is accounted for · $1.80 per 1,000 pages
1M context · tool calling · reads images
Alibaba CloudQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
$2.80/M tokens
cheapest we can explain, at NanoGPT · $0.462 per 1,000 pages
131k context · tool calling · reads images · open weights
List price in (lower wins)
$2/M
$2.80/M
List price out (lower wins)
$10/M
$8.40/M
Cheapest we can explain (lower wins)
none below list
$2.80/M at NanoGPT
Standard price (lower wins)
$16/M
$16.80/M
Cost per 1,000 pages (lower wins)
$1.80
$0.462
Context
1M tokens
131k tokens
Open weights
no
yes
Tool calling
yes
yes
Structured output
yes
not stated
Reads images
yes
yes
Reasoning
yes
no
Released
29 Jun 2026
1 Sept 2024
Providers selling it
42
15
Price we measure against
the maker's own
the maker's own
Trains on your prompts (no is better)
no provider to check
not stated
Providers selling both · 7
NanoGPT$16 / $2.80
Jiekou$16 / $3.20
Kilo Gateway$16 / $3.40
OpenRouter$16 / $3.40
TrustedRouter$16.88 / $3.59
Cortecs$18.23 / $4.20
Eden AI$24 / $4.04
Claude Sonnet 5 then Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct, per million tokens
Go further
Add a third or fourth model, or switch the weighting, in the tool.
What moved in the last seven days
- Claude Sonnet 5
Nous Portal$1.60 / $8 $2 / $1025% dearer · - Qwen2.5-VL 72B InstructTrustedRouter$0.84 / $0.84 $0.84 / $1.066% dearer ·
- Claude Sonnet 5Cortecs$2.30 / $11.51 $2.28 / $11.391.0% cheaper ·
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5 or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct, at $2.80 per million tokens against $16 for Claude Sonnet 5, three parts input to one part output, read on 16 Sept 2026.
- Where is each one cheapest?
- Claude Sonnet 5: nobody goes below the maker's own price with a reason we can point at, so $16 is the number to beat. Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: $2.80 at NanoGPT.
- Can I buy both from one provider?
- Yes. 7 providers sell both: NanoGPT, Jiekou, Kilo Gateway, OpenRouter, TrustedRouter, Cortecs, and more. The cheapest of them for the two together is NanoGPT.
- Which holds more context?
- Claude Sonnet 5, at 1M tokens against 131k.
Prices exclude tax and are per million tokens, read 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own catalog. The standard price blends three parts input to one part output; a page is 600 tokens in and 60 out. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.