Model comparison
Qwen2-72B vs Yi-Large
Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); 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. Qwen2-72B 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 29.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BigCodeBench Complete: 54% for Qwen2-72B and 47.2% for Yi-Large.
- Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | 01.AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.0 | 38.1 |
| Released | 2024-06-07 | 2024-05-13 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 26 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Yi-Large leads
Qwen2-72B: 29.1 (#310), Yi-Large: 36.7 (#203)
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 38.5% | 37.7% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 54% | 47.2% |
| WeirdML | 11.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1196 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 17.0 (#146), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 1.1% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.9% | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 23.2 (#181), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1191 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.28 | — |
Math Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 30.2 (#236), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1235 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 39.1% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#275), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 82.4% | 79.3% |
| GPQA Diamond | 40.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1171 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 35.9 (#244), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1176 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1240 | — |
| LMArena French | 1170 | — |
| LMArena German | 1151 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1111 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1083 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1169 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1169 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 61.7 (#241), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1181 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#235), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1192 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Qwen2-72B: 40.8 (#241), Yi-Large: —
| Benchmark | Qwen2-72B | Yi-Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1181 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1196 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Qwen2-72B better than Yi-Large?
Qwen2-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#300); Yi-Large does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Qwen2-72B or Yi-Large better for coding?
Yi-Large scores higher on coding benchmarks: 36.7 versus 29.1 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Qwen2-72B and Yi-Large share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen2-72B has 26 scored results on Noometry and Yi-Large has 3.