Model comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct vs Yi-Large
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct scores higher in 0 categories and Yi-Large in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Yi-Large leads 36.7 to 33.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 55.9% for Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and 47.2% for Yi-Large.
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 31.9 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-09 | 2024-05-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 8K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.40 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5.60 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Yi-Large leads
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 33.2 (#260), Yi-Large: 36.7 (#203)
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.8% | 37.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 55.9% | 47.2% |
| WeirdML | 16% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1292 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.1 (#133), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 5.7% | — |
| BALROG | 16.2% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 35.8% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.3 (#199), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1271 | — |
| 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 Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 19.3 (#287), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.1% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.2% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 27.0 (#253), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 85.3% | 79.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 49.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 63.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 42.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1245 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 94.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 71.9% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.0 (#213), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.5 (#221), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 80.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1254 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#188), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1282 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.7 (#215), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1269 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1221 | — |
| WildBench | 80.2% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1272 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better than Yi-Large?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#267); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct or Yi-Large better for coding?
Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 33.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5 72B Instruct and Yi-Large share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.