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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Gemini 4 Carbon leads the LLM Stats Score 59.0 to 13.8.

Google · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Gemini 4 Carbon leads the overall LLM Stats Score 59.0 to 13.8, ranking #2 overall.

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

Choose Gemini 4 Carbon

  • overall performance matters — it scores 59.0 and ranks #2 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 need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Gemini 4 Carbon
Google
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
59.0
#2
13.8
#273
Reasoning
54.9
#5
11.2
#288
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

2 shared
Index
Gemini 4 Carbon
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Vision
36.0#12
10.4#144
Multimodal
38.0#6
11.3#132
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

16 reported for Gemini 4 Carbon · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Gemini 4 Carbon 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

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Gemini 4 Carbon and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Gemini 4 Carbon is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

Gemini 4 Carbon

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Gemini 4 Carbon was released on 2026-10-28, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Gemini 4 Carbon is 26 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Gemini 4 Carbon

Oct 28, 2026

-1 days ago

2.2yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.2 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Gemini 4 Carbon's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct's training data extends to 2023-06-30, but cannot make a direct comparison without Gemini 4 Carbon's cutoff date.

Gemini 4 Carbon

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Gemini 4 Carbon and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Gemini 4 Carbon
✓ Preferred
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Gemini 4 Carbon vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Gemini 4 Carbon or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Gemini 4 Carbon leads the LLM Stats Score 59.0 to 13.8. Gemini 4 Carbon is made by Google 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 Gemini 4 Carbon compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Gemini 4 Carbon scores Gray Swan IPI Benchmark: 100.0%, Vending-Bench 2: 100.0%, Graphwalks BFS >128k: 96.2%, WebDev Arena: 88.4%, SEC-bench Pro: 88.2%. 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 main differences between Gemini 4 Carbon and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (59.0 vs 13.8), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Gemini 4 Carbon and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Gemini 4 Carbon is developed by Google and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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