Model comparison
Qwen Plus vs Qwen1.5-72B
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen Plus scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen Plus leads 27.4 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 48.1% for Qwen Plus and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 37.1 | 30.8 |
| Released | 2024-01-25 | 2024-02-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 33K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.20 | — |
| Results tracked | 20 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 38.9 (#167), Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1328 | 1165 |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |
Reasoning Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 28.4 (#107), Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1317 | 1148 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 63.3% | — |
| DTBench | 81.1% | — |
| LMCA | 24% | — |
Math Qwen1.5-72B leads
Qwen Plus: 23.3 (#271), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1326 | 1164 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 17.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 65.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#251), Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 48.1% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1328 | 1136 |
Multilingual Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 45.1 (#175), Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1310 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1347 | 1186 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1251 | 1061 |
| LMArena Russian | 1323 | 1104 |
| LMArena French | — | 1159 |
| LMArena German | — | 1084 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1050 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1110 |
Instruction Following Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 68.8 (#181), Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1303 | 1141 |
Long Context Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#158), Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1324 | 1157 |
Writing & Preference Qwen Plus leads
Qwen Plus: 52.2 (#176), Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)
| Benchmark | Qwen Plus | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1326 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1293 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1336 | 1160 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen Plus better than Qwen1.5-72B?
Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.1 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Qwen Plus or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?
Qwen Plus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 38.9 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen Plus and Qwen1.5-72B share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen Plus has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.