Model comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct vs Wizardlm 13b
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and Wizardlm 13b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 10 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)
MicrosoftSummary
- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher in 6 categories and Wizardlm 13b in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads 46.7 to 30.5.
Side by side
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 31.4 |
| Released | 2024-09 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 10 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260), Wizardlm 13b: 30.1 (#298)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1292 | 1035 |
| WeirdML | 16% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.9% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133), Wizardlm 13b: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 5.7% | — |
| BALROG | 16.2% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 35.8% | — |
Reasoning Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199), Wizardlm 13b: 19.4 (#259)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1271 | 1018 |
| DTBench | 62.9% | — |
| LMCA | 13.4% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
| HellaSwag | 84.8% | — |
| PIQA | 82.6% | — |
| WinoGrande | 82.3% | — |
Math Wizardlm 13b leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287), Wizardlm 13b: 30.2 (#238)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1283 | 1017 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253), Wizardlm 13b: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1245 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 94.5% | — |
| MMLU | 85.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 71.9% | — |
Multilingual Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213), Wizardlm 13b: 27.1 (#277)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1252 | 1034 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1023 |
| LMArena French | 1280 | — |
| LMArena German | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1180 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1188 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1264 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1256 | — |
Instruction Following Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221), Wizardlm 13b: 53.5 (#285)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | 1048 |
| IFEval | 80.6% | — |
Long Context Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188), Wizardlm 13b: 32.0 (#273)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1282 | 1054 |
Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215), Wizardlm 13b: 30.5 (#287)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Wizardlm 13b |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1269 | 1077 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1221 | 1091 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1272 | 1047 |
| WildBench | 80.2% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better than Wizardlm 13b?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and Wizardlm 13b score almost the same on the Noometry Index (31.9 vs 31.4), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct or Wizardlm 13b better for coding?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.2 versus 30.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and Wizardlm 13b share?
10 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Wizardlm 13b has 10.