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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 30B A3B leads the LLM Stats Score 17.3 to 12.7.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Qwen3 30B A3B leads the overall LLM Stats Score 17.3 to 12.7, ranking #220 overall.

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

Choose Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

  • you are already invested in the Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team ecosystem

Choose Qwen3 30B A3B

  • overall performance matters — it scores 17.3 and ranks #220 on LLM Stats
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Apr 2025

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
12.7
#253
17.3
#220
Reasoning
12.8
#244
17.6
#211
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
—
—
Input price
— / M
$0.10 / M
Output price
— / M
$0.30 / M
Context window
—
128,000

Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Qwen3 30B A3B
Math
7.6#263
19.6#164
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

30 reported for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct · 8 for Qwen3 30B A3B

No common benchmarks found

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3Bdon'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

Model Size

Parameter count comparison

41.5B diff

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct has 41.5B more parameters than Qwen3 30B A3B, making it 136.1% larger.

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
72.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B
30.5Bparameters
72.0B
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
30.5B
Qwen3 30B A3B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen3 30B A3B specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Qwen3 30B A3B specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Tue Sep 22 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3 30B A3B does not.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3 30B A3B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is licensed under tongyi-qianwen, while Qwen3 30B A3B uses Apache 2.0.

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

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

tongyi-qianwen

Open weights

Qwen3 30B A3B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct was released on 2025-01-26, while Qwen3 30B A3B was released on 2025-04-29.

Qwen3 30B A3B is 3 months newer than Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Jan 26, 2025

1.7 years ago

Qwen3 30B A3B

Apr 29, 2025

1.4 years ago

3mo 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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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
✓ Preferred
Qwen3 30B A3B
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FAQ

Common questions about Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct vs Qwen3 30B A3B.

Which is better, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct or Qwen3 30B A3B?

Qwen3 30B A3B leads the LLM Stats Score 17.3 to 12.7. Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team and Qwen3 30B A3B 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 Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct compare to Qwen3 30B A3B in benchmarks?

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct scores DocVQA: 96.4%, Android Control Low_EM: 93.7%, ChartQA: 89.5%, OCRBench: 88.5%, AI2D: 88.4%. Qwen3 30B A3B scores Arena Hard: 91.0%, AIME 2024: 80.4%, LiveBench: 74.3%, Multi-IF: 72.2%, AIME 2025: 70.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B?

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen3 30B A3B supports 128K 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 VL 72B Instruct and Qwen3 30B A3B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (12.7 vs 17.3), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (tongyi-qianwen vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

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