# Qwen1.5-72B vs Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)

> Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#282); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/qwen1-5-72b-vs-qwen2-5-coder
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Snapshot

| | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Alibaba (Qwen) | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.3 | — |
| Rank | 282 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.4 (#272)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 33.2% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1166 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 40.3% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 59.1% | — |
| MBPP+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Qwen1.5-72B: 21.2 (#201)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1148 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 112.93 |
| HellaSwag | — | 76.8% |
| WinoGrande | — | 72.9% |

## Math

- Qwen1.5-72B: 30.7 (#205)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1164 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.7% |

## Knowledge

- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#295)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 28.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1136 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 60.9% |
| MMLU | — | 68% |

## Multilingual

- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.4 (#248)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1135 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1186 | — |
| LMArena French | 1158 | — |
| LMArena German | 1084 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1061 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1049 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1104 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1110 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.6 (#251)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1142 | — |

## Long Context

- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.0 (#238)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1157 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.4 (#253)
- Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B): —

| Benchmark | Qwen1.5-72B | Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1166 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1137 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1160 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Qwen1.5-72B better than Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B)?

Qwen1.5-72B has enough public results to be ranked (#282); Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Qwen1.5-72B and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Qwen1.5-72B has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) has 6.