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Qwen2-72B vs GPT-5 Mini

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Winner summary

GPT-5 Mini wins 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Leads in knowledge · math.

Category leads
knowledge·GPT-5 Minimath·GPT-5 Mini
Hype vs Reality
Qwen2-72B
#139 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5 Mini
#65 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
Qwen2-72B
no price
GPT-5 Mini
49.8 pts/$
$1.13/M
Vendor risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Qwen2-72BGPT-5 Mini
GPQA diamond
GPT-5 Mini leads by +45.6
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-5 Mini
66.7
MATH level 5
GPT-5 Mini leads by +58.8
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-5 Mini
97.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkQwen2-72BGPT-5 Mini
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
21.066.7
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
39.197.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen2-72B
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Mini$0.25$2.00400K tokens (~200 books)$6.88