Model Comparison

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Comparing Qwen2.5 7B Instruct and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct don't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

65.8B diff

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has 65.8B more parameters than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct, making it 864.5% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
7.6Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
7.6B
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifies input context (131,072 tokens). Only Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Input131,072 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2.5 7B Instruct does not.

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

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 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.

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is 1 month newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.7 years ago

3w newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

1.7 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct'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 Qwen2.5 7B Instruct's cutoff date.

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (131,072 tokens)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs

Detailed Comparison

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Feature
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Qwen2.5 7B Instruct vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, Qwen2.5 7B Instruct or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct (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.

How does Qwen2.5 7B Instruct compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.6%, MT-Bench: 87.5%, HumanEval: 84.8%, MBPP: 79.2%, MATH: 75.5%. 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 context window sizes for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct supports 131K tokens and Qwen2-VL-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 Qwen2.5 7B Instruct and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

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