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o1-mini vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct are closely matched at 10.0 and 14.3 on the LLM Stats Score.

OpenAI · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct are closely matched on the overall LLM Stats Score at 10.0 and 14.3.

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

Choose o1-mini

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Sep 2024

Choose Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

o1-mini
OpenAI
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
10.0
#282
14.3
#253
Reasoning
10.3
#276
11.6
#268
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$3.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$12.00 / M
— / M
Context window
128,000
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Individual benchmarks

6 reported for o1-mini · 15 for Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

No common benchmarks found

o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-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

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only o1-mini specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only o1-mini specifies output context (65,536 tokens).

OpenAI
o1-mini
Input128,000 tokens
Output65,536 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Oct 14 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas o1-mini does not.

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

o1-mini

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

o1-mini is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct uses tongyi-qianwen.

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

o1-mini

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

o1-mini was released on 2024-09-12, while Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct was released on 2024-08-29.

o1-mini is 0 month newer than Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

o1-mini

Sep 12, 2024

2.1 years ago

2w newer
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Aug 29, 2024

2.1 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-06-30, while o1-mini'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 o1-mini's cutoff date.

o1-mini

—

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Jun 2023

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

o1-mini
✓ Preferred
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about o1-mini vs Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct.

Which is better, o1-mini or Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct are closely matched on the LLM Stats Score at 10.0 and 14.3. o1-mini is made by OpenAI and Qwen2-VL-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 o1-mini compare to Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct in benchmarks?

o1-mini scores HumanEval: 92.4%, MATH-500: 90.0%, MMLU: 85.2%, SuperGLUE: 75.0%, GPQA: 60.0%. 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 o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

o1-mini supports 128K 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 o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (10.0 vs 14.3), multimodal support (no vs yes), licensing (Proprietary vs tongyi-qianwen). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes o1-mini and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct?

o1-mini is developed by OpenAI and Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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