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o3 vs Qwen2-72B

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Winner summary

o3 wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math · general.

Category leads
knowledge·o3math·o3general·o3coding·o3
Hype vs Reality
o3
#121 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen2-72B
#216 by perf·#1 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
o3
10.3 pts/$
$5.00/M
Qwen2-72B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
o3Qwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
o3 leads by +53.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
o3
75.8
Qwen2-72B
21.9
MATH level 5
o3 leads by +58.7
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
o3
97.8
Qwen2-72B
39.1
Metr Time Horizons
o3 leads by +35.5
o3
65.4
Qwen2-72B
29.9
WeirdML
o3 leads by +41.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
o3
52.4
Qwen2-72B
11.3
Full benchmark table
Benchmarko3Qwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
75.821.9
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
97.839.1
Metr Time Horizons
65.429.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
52.411.3
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoo3$2.00$8.00200K tokens (~100 books)$35.00
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2-72Bn/an/an/an/a