Model comparison

GPT-5.4 Pro vs Qwen2-72B

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5.4 Pro OpenAI

58.9

Rank #18 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.0

Rank #300 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5.4 Pro leads 70.7 to 23.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 94.6% for GPT-5.4 Pro and 40.8% for Qwen2-72B.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5.4 Pro and Qwen2-72B specifications
GPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index58.930.0
Released2026-03-052024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$30—
Output $ / M tokens$180—
Results tracked1626

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 43.2 (#90), Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
WeirdML57.4%11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
LMArena Coding—1196
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 70.7 (#13), Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
Epoch Capabilities Index158.93125.28
ARC-AGI-283.3%—
SimpleBench74.1%—
ARC-AGI-194.5%—
CritPt30%—
Chess Puzzles58.6%—
EnigmaEval23.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1191

Math GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 72.4 (#22), Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)82.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 458.5%—
LMArena Math—1235
MATH Level 5—39.1%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)50%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)37.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5.4 Pro leads

GPT-5.4 Pro: 68.3 (#7), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
GPQA Diamond94.6%40.8%
Humanity's Last Exam44.3%—
SimpleQA Verified46.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.3%—
LMArena Expert—1171
MMLU—82.4%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
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-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following—1181

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query—1192

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5.4 Pro: —, Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 ProQwen2-72B
LMArena Text—1203
LMArena Creative Writing—1181
LMArena Multi-Turn—1196

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5.4 Pro better than Qwen2-72B?

GPT-5.4 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.9 to 30.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-5.4 Pro or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

GPT-5.4 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.2 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5.4 Pro and Qwen2-72B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5.4 Pro has 16 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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