# DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

> Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-v2-vs-qwen2-5-72b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 10

## Summary

- They share 10 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher in 1 category and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) leads 39.8 to 32.8.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.7 | 31.5 |
| Rank | — | 259 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $1.40 |
| Output $/M | — | $5.60 |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): 39.8 (#141)
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 32.8 (#256)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 48.9% | 45.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 59.4% | 55.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 16% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1293 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 22.0 (#124)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 5.7% |
| BALROG | — | 16.2% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 35.8% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 21.4 (#197)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| BIG-Bench Hard | 78.8% | 79.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 124.78 | 129.01 |
| HellaSwag | 87.1% | 84.8% |
| PIQA | 83.9% | 82.6% |
| WinoGrande | 86.3% | 82.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1271 |
| DTBench | — | 62.9% |
| LMCA | — | 13.4% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |

## Math

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 18.1 (#281)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 8.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 33% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1283 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 63.2% |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 26.9 (#247)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 92.2% | 94.5% |
| MMLU | 78.4% | 85.3% |
| TriviaQA | 80% | 71.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 49.1% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 63.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 19.1% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 42.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1245 |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 41.2 (#208)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1272 |
| LMArena French | — | 1279 |
| LMArena German | — | 1234 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1180 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1188 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1264 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1255 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 65.7 (#216)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 80.6% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1254 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 38.9 (#183)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1282 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024): —
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct: 46.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1221 |
| WildBench | — | 80.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1272 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) better than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has enough public results to be ranked (#259); DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) or Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better for coding?

DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.8 versus 32.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct share?

10 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V2 (MoE-236B, May 2024) has 10 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has 43.