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LongCat-2.5 vs Qwen2 72B Instruct

LongCat-2.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 5.3.

Meituan · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

LongCat-2.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 5.3, ranking #20 overall.

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

Choose LongCat-2.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 50.0 and ranks #20 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Nov 2026

Choose Qwen2 72B Instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

LongCat-2.5
Meituan
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
50.0
#20
5.3
#334
Reasoning
48.3
#21
5.1
#330
Coding
38.6
#27
9.7
#200
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
$0.30 / M
— / M
Output price
$1.20 / M
— / M
Context window
1,048,576
—

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
LongCat-2.5
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Math
37.2#37
10.9#267
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

23 reported for LongCat-2.5 · 17 for Qwen2 72B Instruct

No common benchmarks found

LongCat-2.5 and Qwen2 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

1528.0B diff

LongCat-2.5 has 1528.0B more parameters than Qwen2 72B Instruct, making it 2122.2% larger.

Meituan
LongCat-2.5
1.6Tparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
72.0Bparameters
1600.0B
LongCat-2.5
72.0B
Qwen2 72B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only LongCat-2.5 specifies input context (1,048,576 tokens). Only LongCat-2.5 specifies output context (131,072 tokens).

Meituan
LongCat-2.5
Input1,048,576 tokens
Output131,072 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Tue Nov 03 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

LongCat-2.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2 72B Instruct does not.

LongCat-2.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

LongCat-2.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

LongCat-2.5 was released on 2026-11-01, while Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

LongCat-2.5 is 28 months newer than Qwen2 72B Instruct.

LongCat-2.5

Nov 1, 2026

0 days ago

2.3yr newer
Qwen2 72B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

2.3 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

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against LongCat-2.5 and Qwen2 72B Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

LongCat-2.5
✓ Preferred
Qwen2 72B Instruct
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FAQ

Common questions about LongCat-2.5 vs Qwen2 72B Instruct.

Which is better, LongCat-2.5 or Qwen2 72B Instruct?

LongCat-2.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 5.3. LongCat-2.5 is made by Meituan and Qwen2 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 LongCat-2.5 compare to Qwen2 72B Instruct in benchmarks?

LongCat-2.5 scores MathVision: 96.5%, BrowseComp: 91.9%, CharXiv-R: 90.2%, Terminal-Bench 2.1: 88.4%, Video-MME: 85.2%. Qwen2 72B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.1%, CMMLU: 90.1%, HellaSwag: 87.6%, HumanEval: 86.0%, Winogrande: 85.1%.

What are the context window sizes for LongCat-2.5 and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

LongCat-2.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Qwen2 72B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between LongCat-2.5 and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (50.0 vs 5.3), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Unknown vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes LongCat-2.5 and Qwen2 72B Instruct?

LongCat-2.5 is developed by Meituan and Qwen2 72B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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