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Model comparison

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) xAI

33.4

Rank #233 Confirmed

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

29.4

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 20.0 to 16.4.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Grok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderxAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index33.429.4
Released2024-08-132024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$2.80
Output $ / M tokens—$8.40
Results tracked346

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 32.9 (#254), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
WeirdML22.2%—
LiveBench Coding46.4%—
LMArena Coding1288—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.4 (#294), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
SimpleBench22.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36%
LiveBench Reasoning54.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1272—
DTBench65.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis54.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index130.48—
LiveBench54.3%—

Math Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 19.6 (#278), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202511.5%—
LiveBench Math54.9%—
LMArena Math1283—
MATH Level 563.5%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#225), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond53.8%—
Confabulations20.1%—
LMArena Expert1254—

Multimodal Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision—1107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.3 (#183), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1282—
LMArena Chinese1289—
LMArena French1317—
LMArena German1287—
LMArena Japanese1244—
LMArena Korean1237—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1281—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 67.1 (#197), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LiveBench Instruction Following69.6%—
LMArena Instruction Following1270—

Long Context Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.7 (#186), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1276—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.8 (#192), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkGrok-2 (Dec 2024)Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1305—
LMArena Creative Writing1284—
Short-Story Creative Writing63.6%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1290—
LiveBench Language45.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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