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Beam 1.0 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Beam 1.0 leads the LLM Stats Score 44.6 to 13.9.

Reflection AI · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Beam 1.0 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 44.6 to 13.9, ranking #46 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Beam 1.0

  • overall performance matters — it scores 44.6 and ranks #46 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

  • you are already invested in the Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team ecosystem

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Beam 1.0
Reflection AI
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
44.6
#46
13.9
#263
Reasoning
45.5
#37
11.2
#278
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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—
Input price
$0.40 / M
— / M
Output price
$1.20 / M
— / M
Context window
1,048,576
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Beam 1.0
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Vision
15.9#105
10.4#138
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

22 reported for Beam 1.0 · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Beam 1.0 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

427.9B diff

Beam 1.0 has 427.9B more parameters than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct, making it 583.0% larger.

Reflection AI
Beam 1.0
501.3Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
501.3B
Beam 1.0
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Beam 1.0 specifies input context (1,048,576 tokens). Only Beam 1.0 specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

Reflection AI
Beam 1.0
Input1,048,576 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thu Oct 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Beam 1.0 does not.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Beam 1.0

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Beam 1.0 is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Beam 1.0

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Beam 1.0 was released on 2026-10-16, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Beam 1.0 is 26 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Beam 1.0

Oct 16, 2026

3 days ago

2.1yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.1 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Beam 1.0 has a knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-30, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a cutoff of 2023-06-30.

Beam 1.0 has more recent training data (up to 2026-06-30), making it potentially better informed about events through that date compared to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct (2023-06-30).

Beam 1.0

Jun 2026

3 yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Beam 1.0 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Beam 1.0
✓ Preferred
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Beam 1.0 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Beam 1.0 or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Beam 1.0 leads the LLM Stats Score 44.6 to 13.9. Beam 1.0 is made by Reflection AI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Beam 1.0 compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Beam 1.0 scores AIME 2026: 97.7%, GPQA: 90.6%, LiveCodeBench: 88.3%, SWE-Bench Verified: 81.6%, MCP Atlas: 80.8%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench: 86.5%.

What are the context window sizes for Beam 1.0 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Beam 1.0 supports 1.0M tokens and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Beam 1.0 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (44.6 vs 13.9), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Beam 1.0 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Beam 1.0 is developed by Reflection AI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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