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LFM3-1.7B vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

LFM3-1.7B leads the LLM Stats Score 25.0 to 13.7.

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

Which is better?

LFM3-1.7B leads the overall LLM Stats Score 25.0 to 13.7, ranking #192 overall.

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

Choose LFM3-1.7B

  • overall performance matters — it scores 25.0 and ranks #192 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 are already invested in the Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team ecosystem

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

LFM3-1.7B
Liquid AI
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
25.0
#192
13.7
#277
Reasoning
20.8
#216
11.3
#289
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Individual benchmarks

20 reported for LFM3-1.7B · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

LFM3-1.7B 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

71.7B diff

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has 71.7B more parameters than LFM3-1.7B, making it 4142.8% larger.

Liquid AI
LFM3-1.7B
1.7Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
1.7B
LFM3-1.7B
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas LFM3-1.7B does not.

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

LFM3-1.7B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

LFM3-1.7B is licensed under LFM Open License v1.0, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

LFM3-1.7B

LFM Open License v1.0

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

LFM3-1.7B was released on 2026-10-27, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

LFM3-1.7B is 26 months newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

LFM3-1.7B

Oct 27, 2026

4 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 LFM3-1.7B'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 LFM3-1.7B's cutoff date.

LFM3-1.7B

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against LFM3-1.7B and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

LFM3-1.7B
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FAQ

Common questions about LFM3-1.7B vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, LFM3-1.7B or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

LFM3-1.7B leads the LLM Stats Score 25.0 to 13.7. LFM3-1.7B is made by Liquid AI 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 LFM3-1.7B compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

LFM3-1.7B scores IFEval: 96.7%, Multi-IF: 89.1%, LiveCodeBench v6: 73.5%, IFBench: 73.0%, BFCL-V4: 71.4%. 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 LFM3-1.7B and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (25.0 vs 13.7), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (LFM Open License v1.0 vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes LFM3-1.7B and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

LFM3-1.7B is developed by Liquid AI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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