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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B: side-by-side benchmarks, pricing, context windows, coding ability and deployment. Pick the right model for your stack.
Overview
Claude 3.5 Haiku: Claude 3.5 Haiku is Anthropic's fast, low-cost model from late 2024, built for high-volume work such as classification, extraction and routing across a 200,000-token context window. The claude-3-5-haiku-20241022 snapshot was deprecated on 19 December 2025 and retired on Anthropic-operated platforms on 19 February 2026, with Claude Haiku 4.5 named as its replacement.
Qwen2.5-VL 72B: Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is the largest vision-language model in Alibaba's Qwen2.5-VL line, accepting images and video alongside text. Qwen highlights comprehension of videos over an hour long, structured extraction from documents such as invoices, forms and tables, visual grounding returned as bounding boxes or points, and agentic computer and phone use. The published config sets a 32,768-token context, and Qwen advises against YaRN extension here because it degrades temporal and spatial localisation.
Context window: Claude 3.5 Haiku accepts up to 200,000 tokens, Qwen2.5-VL 72B up to 128,000. Confirm the limit for your specific deployment channel before relying on it.
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B at a glance
| Attribute | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Qwen2.5-VL 72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba |
| Released | 2024-11-04 | 2025-01-26 |
| Context window | 200,000 tokens | 128,000 tokens |
| Input price | $0.8/M tokens | Free / self-hosted |
| Output price | $4/M tokens | Free / self-hosted |
| Licence | Proprietary | Qwen License |
| Self-hostable | No, hosted only | Yes, open weights |
| Modalities | text | text, vision |
Where they differ most
- Reasoning: Claude 3.5 Haiku 25%, Qwen2.5-VL 72B 75%. Qwen2.5-VL 72B leads on this dimension.
- Cost Efficiency: Claude 3.5 Haiku 65%, Qwen2.5-VL 72B 100%. Qwen2.5-VL 72B leads on this dimension.
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Frequently asked questions
Which is better, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Qwen2.5-VL 72B?
Claude 3.5 Haiku and Qwen2.5-VL 72B target different workloads — see the benchmark and pricing tables for a side-by-side answer.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku cheaper than Qwen2.5-VL 72B?
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