Model Comparison

Qwen2 72B Instruct vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Qwen2 72B 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

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

1.4B diff

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has 1.4B more parameters than Qwen2 72B Instruct, making it 1.9% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
72.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
73.4Bparameters
72.0B
Qwen2 72B Instruct
73.4B
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2 72B 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 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under tongyi-qianwen.

Both models share the same licensing terms, providing consistent usage rights.

Qwen2 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

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

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.7 years ago

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

1.6 years ago

1mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

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

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2 72B Instruct

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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs

Detailed Comparison

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

FAQ

Common questions about Qwen2 72B Instruct vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen2 72B 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.
Qwen2 72B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.1%, CMMLU: 90.1%, HellaSwag: 87.6%, HumanEval: 86.0%, Winogrande: 85.1%. Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct scores DocVQAtest: 96.5%, VCR_en_easy: 91.9%, ChartQA: 88.3%, OCRBench: 87.7%, MMBench_test: 86.5%.
Key differences include multimodal support (no vs yes). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.