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Devstral Medium vs Qwen2 72B Instruct

Comparing Devstral Medium and Qwen2 72B Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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

Which is better?

Devstral Medium and Qwen2 72B Instruct trade strengths across price, capabilities, and technical limits. The better choice depends on the workload.

Based on current benchmark, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Devstral Medium

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Jul 2025

Choose Qwen2 72B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Devstral Medium
Mistral AI
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.40 / M
— / M
Output price
$2.00 / M
— / M
Context window
128,000
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Released
Jul 2025
Jul 2024
License
Proprietary
tongyi-qianwen

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Devstral Medium and Qwen2 72B Instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Playground indexes and blind preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Devstral Medium specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Devstral Medium specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Mistral AI
Devstral Medium
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Aug 25 2026 • llm-stats.com

License

Usage and distribution terms

Devstral Medium is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2 72B Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

Devstral Medium

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Devstral Medium was released on 2025-07-10, while Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Devstral Medium is 12 months newer than Qwen2 72B Instruct.

Devstral Medium

Jul 10, 2025

1.1 years ago

11mo newer
Qwen2 72B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

2.1 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

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

Devstral Medium
✓ Preferred
Qwen2 72B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Devstral Medium vs Qwen2 72B Instruct.

Which is better, Devstral Medium or Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Devstral Medium (Mistral AI) and Qwen2 72B Instruct (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.

How does Devstral Medium compare to Qwen2 72B Instruct in benchmarks?

Devstral Medium scores SWE-Bench Verified: 61.6%. Qwen2 72B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.1%, CMMLU: 90.1%, HellaSwag: 87.6%, HumanEval: 86.0%, Winogrande: 85.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Devstral Medium and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Devstral Medium supports 128K tokens and Qwen2 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 Devstral Medium and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Key differences include licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Devstral Medium and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Devstral Medium is developed by Mistral AI and Qwen2 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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