Model Comparison

QvQ-72B-Preview vs Qwen3-Coder

Comparing QvQ-72B-Preview and Qwen3-Coder across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

QvQ-72B-Preview and Qwen3-Coder don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QvQ-72B-Preview
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder
Input tokens$0.18
Output tokens$0.18
Best providerDeepinfra
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

406.6B diff

Qwen3-Coder has 406.6B more parameters than QvQ-72B-Preview, making it 554.0% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QvQ-72B-Preview
73.4Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder
480.0Bparameters
73.4B
QvQ-72B-Preview
480.0B
Qwen3-Coder

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen3-Coder specifies input context (256,000 tokens). Only Qwen3-Coder specifies output context (256,000 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QvQ-72B-Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder
Input256,000 tokens
Output256,000 tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

QvQ-72B-Preview supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3-Coder does not.

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

QvQ-72B-Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3-Coder

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

QvQ-72B-Preview is licensed under Qwen, while Qwen3-Coder uses Apache 2.0.

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

QvQ-72B-Preview

Qwen

Open weights

Qwen3-Coder

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

QvQ-72B-Preview was released on 2024-12-25, while Qwen3-Coder was released on 2025-01-01.

Qwen3-Coder is 0 month newer than QvQ-72B-Preview.

QvQ-72B-Preview

Dec 25, 2024

1.3 years ago

Qwen3-Coder

Jan 1, 2025

1.3 years ago

1w newer

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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Key Takeaways

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

QvQ-72B-Preview

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3-Coder

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (256,000 tokens)

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Coder

FAQ

Common questions about QvQ-72B-Preview vs Qwen3-Coder

QvQ-72B-Preview (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) and Qwen3-Coder (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.
QvQ-72B-Preview scores MathVista: 71.4%, MMMU: 70.3%, MathVision: 35.9%, OlympiadBench: 20.4%.
QvQ-72B-Preview supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen3-Coder supports 256K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Qwen vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.