Model comparison
GPT-5.3 Chat vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPT-5.3 Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.3 Chat leads 28.5 to 20.7.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is cheaper at $2.80 / $8.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.75 / $14 for GPT-5.3 Chat.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 42.8 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2026-03-03 | 2024-09 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 131K |
| Max output | 16K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.75 | $2.80 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $14 | $8.40 |
| Results tracked | 18 | 6 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 41.4 (#124), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |
Reasoning GPT-5.3 Chat leads
GPT-5.3 Chat: 28.5 (#102), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | — |
Math Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 38.2 (#142), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1389 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 38.8 (#140), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1397 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97)
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |
Multilingual Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 50.3 (#124), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1382 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1432 | — |
| LMArena French | 1397 | — |
| LMArena German | 1384 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1352 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1346 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1400 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1371 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 72.8 (#129), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1378 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 42.6 (#120), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1396 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GPT-5.3 Chat: 63.1 (#68), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —
| Benchmark | GPT-5.3 Chat | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1389 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1355 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1690 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1412 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GPT-5.3 Chat better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
GPT-5.3 Chat is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.3 Chat or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct is cheaper. It lists at $2.80 per million input tokens and $8.40 per million output tokens; GPT-5.3 Chat lists at $1.75 and $14.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do GPT-5.3 Chat and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.3 Chat has 18 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.