# Grok-2 (Dec 2024) vs Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct

> Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-2-vs-qwen2-5-vl-72b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct leads 20.0 to 16.4.
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 29.4 |
| Rank | 233 | 298 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $2.80 |
| Output $/M | — | $8.40 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 32.9 (#254)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 22.2% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 46.4% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1288 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 18.4 (#136)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OSWorld | — | 5% |

## Reasoning

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 16.4 (#294)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 20.0 (#228)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 22.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 54.8% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1272 | — |
| DTBench | 65.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.5% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 130.48 | — |
| LiveBench | 54.3% | — |

## Math

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 19.6 (#278)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 11.5% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 54.9% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1283 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 63.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 29.8 (#225)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 53.8% | — |
| Confabulations | 20.1% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1254 | — |

## Multimodal

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): —
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: 32.9 (#92)

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1107 |
| Video-MME | — | 73.5% |
| GeoBench | — | 62% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 33.3% |

## Multilingual

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 43.3 (#183)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1282 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1289 | — |
| LMArena French | 1317 | — |
| LMArena German | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1244 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1237 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1281 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 67.1 (#197)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.6% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1270 | — |

## Long Context

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 38.7 (#186)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1276 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok-2 (Dec 2024): 48.8 (#192)
- Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Grok-2 (Dec 2024) | Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1305 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1284 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 63.6% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1290 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 45.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok-2 (Dec 2024) better than Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct?

Grok-2 (Dec 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.4 to 29.4 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Grok-2 (Dec 2024) and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok-2 (Dec 2024) has 34 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-VL 72B Instruct has 6.