Model comparison

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct vs QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

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Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct and QwQ-32B specifications
Qwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
ProviderAlibaba (Qwen)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index29.939.8
Released2024-092024-11-28
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window131K—
Max output8K—
Input $ / M tokens$2.80—
Output $ / M tokens$8.40—
Results tracked636

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
LMArena Coding—1333
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.6 (#144), QwQ-32B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
OSWorld5%—

Reasoning QwQ-32B leads

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.7 (#233), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
Kagi LLM Benchmark36%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1325
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
Epoch Capabilities Index—137.6
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
LiveBench Math—77.8%
LMArena Math—1359

Knowledge Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
Confabulations—15.6%
LMArena Expert—1324

Multimodal Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 33.5 (#97), QwQ-32B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1107—
Video-MME73.5%—
GeoBench62%—
SpatialViz-Bench33.3%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English—1305
LMArena Chinese—1378
LMArena French—1336
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279
LMArena Russian—1297
LMArena Spanish—1354

Instruction Following Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —, QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen2.5-VL 72B InstructQwQ-32B
LMArena Text—1329
LMArena Creative Writing—1288
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1257
LMArena Multi-Turn—1314
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.8 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct and QwQ-32B share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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