Model comparison

Nemotron-4 15B vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Nemotron-4 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 7 shared benchmarks.

Nemotron-4 15B NVIDIA

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Unranked

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

31.9

Rank #267 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both.
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Nemotron-4 15B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct specifications
Nemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ProviderNVIDIAAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index—31.9
Released2024-02-262024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—131K
Max output—8K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.40
Output $ / M tokens—$5.60
Results tracked843

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
WeirdML—16%
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.8%
LMArena Coding—1292
BigCodeBench Complete—55.9%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
TheAgentCompany—5.7%
BALROG—16.2%
METR Time Horizons—35.8%

Reasoning Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
BIG-Bench Hard58.7%79.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index107.72129
HellaSwag82.4%84.8%
PIQA82.4%82.6%
WinoGrande78%82.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1271
DTBench—62.9%
LMCA—13.4%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—8.1%
Omni-MATH—33%
LMArena Math—1283
MATH Level 5—63.2%
GSM8K46%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
ARC (AI2) Challenge55.5%94.5%
MMLU58.7%85.3%
GPQA Diamond—49.1%
MMLU-Pro—63.1%
Confabulations—19.1%
GPQA (HELM)—42.6%
LMArena Expert—1245
TriviaQA—71.9%

Multilingual Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1272
LMArena French—1280
LMArena German—1234
LMArena Japanese—1180
LMArena Korean—1188
LMArena Russian—1264
LMArena Spanish—1256

Instruction Following Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
IFEval—80.6%
LMArena Instruction Following—1254

Long Context Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query—1282

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Nemotron-4 15B: —, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkNemotron-4 15BQwen2.5 72B Instruct
LMArena Text—1269
LMArena Creative Writing—1221
WildBench—80.2%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1272

Frequently asked questions

Is Nemotron-4 15B better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Nemotron-4 15B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Nemotron-4 15B and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Nemotron-4 15B has 8 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.

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