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Qwen2.5 32B Instruct vs Qwen2-72B

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Winner summary

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct wins 5 of 8 shared benchmarks. Leads in general · language · math.

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Hype vs Reality
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
#222 by perf·#2 by attention
OVERHYPED
Qwen2-72B
#203 by perf·#2 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
n/a
no price
Qwen2-72B
n/a
no price
Vendor risk
Alibaba logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Qwen2.5 32B InstructQwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +7.1
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
28.1
Qwen2-72B
21.0
BBH (HuggingFace)
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +4.6
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
56.5
Qwen2-72B
51.9
GPQA
Qwen2-72B leads by +7.5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
11.7
Qwen2-72B
19.2
IFEval
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +45.2
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
83.5
Qwen2-72B
38.2
MATH Level 5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +31.4
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
62.5
Qwen2-72B
31.1
MMLU-PRO
Qwen2-72B leads by +0.7
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
51.9
Qwen2-72B
52.6
MUSR
Qwen2-72B leads by +6.2
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
13.5
Qwen2-72B
19.7
MATH level 5
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct leads by +17.0
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
Qwen2.5 32B Instruct
56.1
Qwen2-72B
39.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkQwen2.5 32B InstructQwen2-72B
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
28.121.0
BBH (HuggingFace)
56.551.9
GPQA
11.719.2
IFEval
83.538.2
MATH Level 5
62.531.1
MMLU-PRO
51.952.6
MUSR
13.519.7
MATH level 5
MATH Level 5 · the hardest tier of the MATH benchmark, featuring competition-level problems from AMC, AIME, and Olympiad-style mathematics.
56.139.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
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