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Qwen2-72B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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Winner summary
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct wins on 8/12 benchmarks
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct wins 8 of 12 shared benchmarks. Leads in coding · general · language.
Category leads
coding·Qwen2.5 72B Instructknowledge·Qwen2-72Bgeneral·Qwen2.5 72B Instructlanguage·Qwen2.5 72B Instructmath·Qwen2.5 72B Instructreasoning·Qwen2-72Bagentic·Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Hype vs Reality
Attention vs performance
Qwen2-72B
#137 by perf·no signal
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
#80 by perf·no signal
Best value
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2-72B
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no price
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
208.6 pts/$
$0.26/M
Vendor risk
Who is behind the model
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Head to head
12 benchmarks · 2 models
Qwen2-72BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Aider · Code Editing
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +9.8
Qwen2-72B
55.6
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
65.4
CMMLU
Qwen2-72B leads by +4.0
Qwen2-72B
89.7
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
85.7
GPQA diamond
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +11.2
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
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
32.2
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +10.0
Qwen2-72B
51.9
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
61.9
GPQA
Qwen2-72B leads by +2.6
Qwen2-72B
19.2
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
16.7
IFEval
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +48.1
Qwen2-72B
38.2
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
86.4
MATH Level 5
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +28.7
Qwen2-72B
31.1
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
59.8
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2-72B leads by +1.2
Qwen2-72B
52.6
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
51.4
MUSR
Qwen2-72B leads by +8.0
Qwen2-72B
19.7
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
11.7
MATH level 5
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +24.1
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
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
63.2
MMLU
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +3.9
Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge.
Qwen2-72B
76.5
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
80.4
The Agent Company
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads by +4.6
The Agent Company · tests AI agents on realistic corporate tasks like email management, code review, data analysis, and cross-tool workflows.
Qwen2-72B
1.1
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
5.7
Full benchmark table
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
Aider · Code Editing | 55.6 | 65.4 |
CMMLU | 89.7 | 85.7 |
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 | 32.2 |
BBH (HuggingFace) | 51.9 | 61.9 |
GPQA | 19.2 | 16.7 |
IFEval | 38.2 | 86.4 |
MATH Level 5 | 31.1 | 59.8 |
MMLU-PRO | 52.6 | 51.4 |
MUSR | 19.7 | 11.7 |
MATH level 5 MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics. | 39.1 | 63.2 |
MMLU Massive Multitask Language Understanding · 57 subjects spanning STEM, humanities, social sciences, and more. The standard benchmark for broad knowledge. | 76.5 | 80.4 |
The Agent Company The Agent Company · tests AI agents on realistic corporate tasks like email management, code review, data analysis, and cross-tool workflows. | 1.1 | 5.7 |
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
| Model | Input | Output | Context | Projected $/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2-72B | — | — | — | — |
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | $0.12 | $0.39 | 33K tokens (~16 books) | $1.88 |