Model comparison

Qwen1.5-72B vs Qwen1.5-7B

Qwen1.5-72B and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Qwen1.5-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

30.8

Rank #285 Confirmed

Qwen1.5-7B Alibaba (Qwen)

31.4

Rank #273 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen1.5-72B scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen1.5-7B in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Qwen1.5-7B leads 28.7 to 11.5.

Side by side

Qwen1.5-72B and Qwen1.5-7B specifications
Qwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.831.4
Released2024-02-042024-02-04
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked2213

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277), Qwen1.5-7B: 32.2 (#276)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Coding11651107
BigCodeBench Instruct33.2%—
BigCodeBench Complete40.3%—
HumanEval+59.1%—
MBPP+61.6%—

Reasoning Qwen1.5-72B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203), Qwen1.5-7B: 20.4 (#240)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Hard Prompts11481065

Math Qwen1.5-72B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205), Qwen1.5-7B: 31.4 (#224)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Math11641080

Knowledge Qwen1.5-7B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.7 (#243)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Expert11361055
GPQA Diamond28.8%—
MMLU—62.6%

Multilingual Qwen1.5-72B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253), Qwen1.5-7B: 28.5 (#271)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Non-English11351058
LMArena Chinese11861141
LMArena Russian11041006
LMArena French1159—
LMArena German1084—
LMArena Japanese1061—
LMArena Korean1050—
LMArena Spanish1110—

Instruction Following Qwen1.5-72B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256), Qwen1.5-7B: 54.1 (#281)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Instruction Following11411058

Long Context Qwen1.5-72B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243), Qwen1.5-7B: 33.1 (#266)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Longer Query11571090

Writing & Preference Qwen1.5-72B leads

Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258), Qwen1.5-7B: 29.6 (#293)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen1.5-72BQwen1.5-7B
LMArena Text11661083
LMArena Creative Writing11371035
LMArena Multi-Turn11601062

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen1.5-72B better than Qwen1.5-7B?

Qwen1.5-72B and Qwen1.5-7B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (30.8 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Qwen1.5-72B or Qwen1.5-7B better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (31.9 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-72B and Qwen1.5-7B share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-72B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-7B has 13.

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