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Qwen2-72B vs GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
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Winner summary
Qwen2-72B wins on 4/4 benchmarks
Qwen2-72B wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · knowledge · math.
Category leads
coding·Qwen2-72Bknowledge·Qwen2-72Bmath·Qwen2-72B
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Qwen2-72B
#139 by perf·no signal
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
#111 by perf·no signal
Best value
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
Qwen2-72B
—
no price
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
30.5 pts/$
$1.50/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
4 benchmarks · 2 models
Qwen2-72BGPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
Aider · Code Editing
Qwen2-72B leads by +5.2
Qwen2-72B
55.6
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
50.4
GPQA diamond
Qwen2-72B leads by +18.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Qwen2-72B
21.0
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
2.9
MATH level 5
Qwen2-72B leads by +27.4
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Qwen2-72B
39.1
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
11.6
MMLU
Qwen2-72B leads by +20.1
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Qwen2-72B
76.5
GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613)
56.4
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | GPT-3.5 Turbo (older v0613) |
|---|---|---|
Aider · Code Editing | 55.6 | 50.4 |
GPQA diamond Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs. | 21.0 | 2.9 |
MATH level 5 MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics. | 39.1 | 11.6 |
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 76.5 | 56.4 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | |
| $1.00 | $2.00 | 4K tokens (~2 books) | $12.50 |