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Hy4 preview vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Hy4 preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.5 to 14.6.

Tencent · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Hy4 preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 51.5 to 14.6, ranking #10 overall.

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

Choose Hy4 preview

  • overall performance matters — it scores 51.5 and ranks #10 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 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.

Hy4 preview
Tencent
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
51.5
#10
14.6
#219
Reasoning
51.2
#8
11.9
#235
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
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Output price
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Context window
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Individual benchmarks

32 reported for Hy4 preview · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Hy4 preview 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

696.6B diff

Hy4 preview has 696.6B more parameters than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct, making it 949.0% larger.

Tencent
Hy4 preview
770.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
770.0B
Hy4 preview
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Hy4 preview does not.

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

Hy4 preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Hy4 preview 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.

Hy4 preview

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Hy4 preview was released on 2026-08-28, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Hy4 preview is 24 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Hy4 preview

Aug 28, 2026

2 days ago

2.0yr newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Hy4 preview'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 Hy4 preview's cutoff date.

Hy4 preview

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Hy4 preview and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Hy4 preview
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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about Hy4 preview vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Hy4 preview or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Hy4 preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.5 to 14.6. Hy4 preview is made by Tencent 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 Hy4 preview compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Hy4 preview scores GPQA: 92.3%, Terminal-Bench 2.1: 85.4%, WideSearch: 83.9%, MCP Atlas: 83.7%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 82.9%. 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 Hy4 preview and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (51.5 vs 14.6), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Hy4 preview and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Hy4 preview is developed by Tencent and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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