Noometry

Model comparison

Qwen Plus vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Qwen Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

36.7

Rank #204 Confirmed

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

29.4

Rank #298 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Qwen Plus scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen Plus leads 27.6 to 20.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Kagi LLM Benchmark: 63.3% for Qwen Plus and 36% for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen Plus is cheaper at $0.40 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $2.80 / $8.40 for Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct.
  • Qwen Plus accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Qwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index36.729.4
Released2024-01-252024-09
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M131K
Max output33K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.40$2.80
Output $ / M tokens$1.20$8.40
Results tracked206

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 38.3 (#163), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Coding1328—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen Plus: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OSWorld—5%

Reasoning Qwen Plus leads

Qwen Plus: 27.6 (#101), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
Kagi LLM Benchmark63.3%36%
LMArena Hard Prompts1317—
DTBench81.1%—
LMCA24%—

Math Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 22.0 (#266), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202517.8%—
LMArena Math1326—
MATH Level 565.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)1.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 27.4 (#245), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
GPQA Diamond48.1%—
LMArena Expert1328—

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen Plus: —, Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Vision—1107
Video-MME—73.5%
GeoBench—62%
SpatialViz-Bench—33.3%

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 45.3 (#170), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1310—
LMArena Chinese1347—
LMArena Japanese1251—
LMArena Russian1323—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 69.0 (#176), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Instruction Following1303—

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 40.3 (#153), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Longer Query1325—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen Plus: 52.4 (#171), Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

BenchmarkQwen PlusQwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct
LMArena Text1326—
LMArena Creative Writing1293—
LMArena Multi-Turn1336—

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen Plus better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Qwen Plus is the stronger model overall, scoring 36.7 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Qwen Plus or Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Qwen Plus is cheaper. It lists at $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct lists at $2.80 and $8.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen Plus does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do Qwen Plus and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Qwen Plus has 20 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.

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