Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct vs Qwen2 Instruct (72B)
Wins 2 of 2 areas
Coding · Reasoning
Wins 0 of 2 areas
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Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct is the stronger all-rounder.
Scores updated · 13 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the two areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
Coding rests on a single test.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct pulls ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+4.6points ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+4.2points ahead
Where Qwen2 Instruct (72B) pulls ahead
No clear win on a test scored out of 100.
Every test, side by side
All 13 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- SciCodeQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 4.227.122.9+4.2
ReasoningQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- GPQA DiamondQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 4.641.737.1+4.6
- Humanity's Last Examtie3.53.7tie
Other results10 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- MMLU-ProQwen2 Instruct (72B) by 1450.464.4+14
- MBPPQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 1090.280.2+10
- HumanEvalQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 6.792.786+6.7
- HellaSwagQwen2 Instruct (72B) by 4.68387.6+4.6
- WinoGrandeQwen2 Instruct (72B) by 4.380.885.1+4.3
- ARC-ChallengeQwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct by 1.670.568.9+1.6
- Theorem QAQwen2 Instruct (72B) by 1.343.144.4+1.3
- TruthfulQAtie54.254.8tie
- AA Intelligencetie6.76.3tie
- GSM8Ktie91.191.1tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct or Qwen2 Instruct (72B)?
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct wins all two areas where both have results: coding and reasoning. Qwen2 Instruct (72B) wins none.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct. It wins the one coding test both models report.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 13 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 3 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 10 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.