Model Comparison

Qwen2 72B Instruct vs QwQ-32B-Preview

QwQ-32B-Preview significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Qwen2 72B Instruct outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while QwQ-32B-Preview is better at 1 benchmark (GPQA).

QwQ-32B-Preview significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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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
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B-Preview
Input tokens$0.15
Output tokens$0.20
Best providerDeepinfra
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

39.5B diff

Qwen2 72B Instruct has 39.5B more parameters than QwQ-32B-Preview, making it 121.5% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
72.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B-Preview
32.5Bparameters
72.0B
Qwen2 72B Instruct
32.5B
QwQ-32B-Preview

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only QwQ-32B-Preview specifies input context (32,768 tokens). Only QwQ-32B-Preview specifies output context (32,768 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B-Preview
Input32,768 tokens
Output32,768 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Qwen2 72B Instruct is licensed under tongyi-qianwen, while QwQ-32B-Preview uses Apache 2.0.

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

Qwen2 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

QwQ-32B-Preview

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen2 72B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23, while QwQ-32B-Preview was released on 2024-11-28.

QwQ-32B-Preview is 4 months newer than Qwen2 72B Instruct.

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.7 years ago

QwQ-32B-Preview

Nov 28, 2024

1.4 years ago

4mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

QwQ-32B-Preview has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-11-28, while Qwen2 72B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm QwQ-32B-Preview's training data extends to 2024-11-28, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen2 72B Instruct's cutoff date.

Qwen2 72B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview

Nov 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2 72B Instruct

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QwQ-32B-Preview

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (32,768 tokens)
Higher GPQA score (65.2% vs 42.4%)

Detailed Comparison

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Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B-Preview

FAQ

Common questions about Qwen2 72B Instruct vs QwQ-32B-Preview

QwQ-32B-Preview significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Qwen2 72B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team and QwQ-32B-Preview is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Qwen2 72B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.1%, CMMLU: 90.1%, HellaSwag: 87.6%, HumanEval: 86.0%, Winogrande: 85.1%. QwQ-32B-Preview scores MATH-500: 90.6%, GPQA: 65.2%, AIME 2024: 50.0%, LiveCodeBench: 50.0%.
Qwen2 72B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens and QwQ-32B-Preview supports 33K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (tongyi-qianwen vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.