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Grok-1.5 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 14.5 to -2.5.

xAI · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the overall LLM Stats Score 14.5 to -2.5, ranking #224 overall.

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

Choose Grok-1.5

  • you are already invested in the xAI ecosystem

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

  • overall performance matters — it scores 14.5 and ranks #224 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2024
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Grok-1.5
xAI
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
-2.5
#328
14.5
#224
Reasoning
-2.0
#318
11.9
#239
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

2 shared
Index
Grok-1.5
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Vision
-4.8#197
11.2#112
Multimodal
-2.2#156
12.2#104
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

9 reported for Grok-1.5 · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Grok-1.5 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

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Grok-1.5 does not.

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

Grok-1.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Grok-1.5 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.

Grok-1.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Grok-1.5 was released on 2024-03-28, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is 5 months newer than Grok-1.5.

Grok-1.5

Mar 28, 2024

2.4 years ago

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

5mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Grok-1.5'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 Grok-1.5's cutoff date.

Grok-1.5

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Grok-1.5 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Grok-1.5
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FAQ

Common questions about Grok-1.5 vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Grok-1.5 or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct leads the LLM Stats Score 14.5 to -2.5. Grok-1.5 is made by xAI 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 Grok-1.5 compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Grok-1.5 scores GSM8k: 90.0%, DocVQA: 85.6%, MMLU: 81.3%, HumanEval: 74.1%, MMMU: 53.6%. 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 Grok-1.5 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (-2.5 vs 14.5), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Grok-1.5 and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Grok-1.5 is developed by xAI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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