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Hy4 preview vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Hy4 preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.5 to 12.9.

Tencent · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Hy4 preview leads the overall LLM Stats Score 51.5 to 12.9, 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 and agents — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2026

Choose Qwen2.5 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
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
51.5
#10
12.9
#233
Reasoning
51.2
#8
13.0
#225
Agents
37.1
#11
5.2
#132
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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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Hy4 preview
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Math
40.3#12
7.9#253
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

32 reported for Hy4 preview · 30 for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

Hy4 preview and Qwen2.5 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

698.0B diff

Hy4 preview has 698.0B more parameters than Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct, making it 969.4% larger.

Tencent
Hy4 preview
770.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
72.0Bparameters
770.0B
Hy4 preview
72.0B
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Hy4 preview does not.

Qwen2.5 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

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Hy4 preview is licensed under Apache 2.0, while Qwen2.5 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

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Hy4 preview was released on 2026-08-28, while Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26.

Hy4 preview is 19 months newer than Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Hy4 preview

Aug 28, 2026

3 days ago

1.6yr newer
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.6 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 Hy4 preview and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Hy4 preview vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Which is better, Hy4 preview or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Hy4 preview leads the LLM Stats Score 51.5 to 12.9. Hy4 preview is made by Tencent and Qwen2.5 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 Qwen2.5 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%. Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct scores DocVQA: 96.4%, Android Control Low_EM: 93.7%, ChartQA: 89.5%, OCRBench: 88.5%, AI2D: 88.4%.

What are the main differences between Hy4 preview and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (51.5 vs 12.9), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Apache 2.0 vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Hy4 preview and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?

Hy4 preview is developed by Tencent and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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