Model comparison

GPT-5.2 Codex vs Qwen2-72B

GPT-5.2 Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.2 Codex OpenAI

42.6

Rank #111 Reported

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where GPT-5.2 Codex leads 41.0 to 17.0.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.2 Codex and Qwen2-72B specifications
GPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index42.630.0
Released2025-12-182024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.75—
Output $ / M tokens$14—
Results tracked526

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.2 Codex leads

GPT-5.2 Codex: 45.5 (#71), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)72.8%—
LMArena WebDev1339—
SWE-bench Multilingual66.3%—
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LMArena Coding—1196
BigCodeBench Complete—54%
ALE-Bench1,300—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5.2 Codex leads

GPT-5.2 Codex: 41.0 (#22), Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
Terminal-Bench66.5%—
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.28

Math Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
LMArena Math—1235
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
LMArena Expert—1171
MMLU—82.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English—1176
LMArena Chinese—1240
LMArena French—1170
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083
LMArena Russian—1169
LMArena Spanish—1169

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.2 Codex: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.2 CodexQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.2 Codex better than Qwen2-72B?

GPT-5.2 Codex is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.6 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.2 Codex or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

GPT-5.2 Codex scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.5 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.2 Codex and Qwen2-72B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.2 Codex has 5 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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