Benchmark Almanac

Qwen2.5-72B

Qwen2.5-72B ranks first on 10 of the 128 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Qwen Released September 19th, 2024 Family Qwen2.5 The lab's model card Compare with others
139
Benchmarks with a score
10
Ranked first, out of five or more models
26
In the top three
Qwen Sep 2024

Qwen2.5-72B

Open weights Flagship

127.2 #165 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 127.7 #294 of 404
  • GPQA Diamond 49.1% #157 /229
  • OSWorld 5.00% #8 /8
  • KoBALT 37% #2 /12

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard v1 69.1% #1 of 55 Official leaderboard
ArabicMMLU 71.4% #1 of 39 Official leaderboard
ArbMMLU-HT 72.2% #1 of 39 Official leaderboard
Open Arabic LLM Leaderboard v2 72.4% #1 of 39 Official leaderboard
QIMMA 68.5% #1 of 25 Official leaderboard
MT-Bench 9.35 #1 of 23 Lab model card
AlGhafa 78.2% #2 of 39 Official leaderboard
MadinahQA 65% #2 of 39 Official leaderboard
MMLU-CF 71.6% #2 of 37 Official leaderboard
MuSR 47.7% #6 of 98 Official leaderboard
MLogiQA 58.4% #2 of 17 Official leaderboard
RULER 95.1% #5 of 42 Lab model card
Okapi MMLU 80% #1 of 8 Lab model card
KoBALT 37% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
Alyah 74.6% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
LLM-AggreFact 75.6% #2 of 10 Official leaderboard
WinoGrande 83.9% #10 of 47 Lab model card
Global PIQA 78.3% #11 of 44 Official leaderboard
AMMLU 72.4% #1 of 4 Lab model card
IndoMMLU 69.3% #1 of 4 Lab model card
JMMLU 80.6% #1 of 4 Lab model card
Multilingual IFEval 87% #1 of 4 Lab model card
TurkishMMLU 76.1% #1 of 4 Lab model card
Chinese SimpleQA 50.2% #7 of 27 Official leaderboard
CMMLU 85.7% #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
BIG-Bench Hard 86.3% #20 of 73 Lab model card
MGSM 88.2% #16 of 57 Lab model card
ALRAGE 78.8% #11 of 39 Official leaderboard
PIQA 82.6% #18 of 58 Claim in DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report, via Epoch AI
EQ-Bench v2 79.0 #27 of 85 Official leaderboard
HellaSwag 87.6% #17 of 53 Lab model card
LongBench-Chat 8.72 #2 of 6 Lab model card
Multilingual Exams 78.7% #1 of 3 Lab model card
Multilingual Understanding 89.6% #1 of 3 Lab model card
MMLU 86.1% #48 of 131 Lab model card
BLEnD 32.5% #2 of 5 Lab model card
SwitzerlandQA 70% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard-Auto 81.2% #18 of 39 Lab model card
Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (HHEM) 4.30% #73 of 148 Official leaderboard
TruthfulQA 60.4% #15 of 30 Lab model card
Flores 39.0 #4 of 8 Lab model card
KMMLU 62% #3 of 6 Lab model card
PenguinScrolls 81.8% #1 of 2 Official leaderboard
AraGen 48.9% #22 of 42 Official leaderboard
ARC-Challenge 72.4% #29 of 49 Lab model card
SuperGPQA 40.8% #35 of 59 Official leaderboard
BuzzBench 45.9 #12 of 20 Official leaderboard
AlignBench 8.16 #9 of 15 Lab model card
TableBench 48.8% #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
LLM Confabulation Leaderboard 19.1% #36 of 58 Official leaderboard
FaithJudge 20.7% #23 of 37 Official leaderboard
LongBench v2 43.5% #21 of 33 Official leaderboard
HELM Arabic 76.9 #18 of 28 Official leaderboard
IFEval 84.1% #89 of 135 Lab model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,303 #230 of 335 Official leaderboard
Encyclo-K 25% #16 of 23 Official leaderboard
TriviaQA 71.9% #27 of 38 Claim in DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report, via Epoch AI
MMLU-Redux 86.8% #32 of 45 Lab model card
MMLU-Pro 71.1% #120 of 167 Lab model card
WritingBench 57.8 #33 of 45 Official leaderboard
KINA 23% #31 of 37 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 896 #68 of 78 Official leaderboard
Arena-Hard v2.0 10.1% #23 of 23 Official leaderboard
MARS-Bench 29.2% #15 of 15 Official leaderboard
MultiLoKo 16.4% #7 of 7 Official leaderboard
MMLU-stem 82.7% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GSM8K 95.8% #9 of 92 Lab model card
MATH 83.1% #17 of 99 Lab model card
PHYSICS 28.7% #5 of 20 Official leaderboard
KOR-Bench 52.2% #9 of 33 Official leaderboard
CNMO 2024 15.9% #2 of 7 Official leaderboard
ZebraLogic 26.6% #16 of 46 Official leaderboard
MATH Level 5 63.2% #41 of 94 Epoch AI run
U-MATH 51.2% #15 of 30 Official leaderboard
IneqMath 2.50% #21 of 34 Official leaderboard
GPQA Diamond 49.1% #157 of 229 Epoch AI run
GPQA Main 42.6% #43 of 60 Official leaderboard
DTBench 62.9% #130 of 180 Official leaderboard
ForecastBench 0.15 #62 of 82 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 8.06% #165 of 212 Epoch AI run
GSM8K Platinum Initial 268 97.4% #16 of 19 Official leaderboard
PolyMath 16.9% #36 of 38 Official leaderboard
AutoLogi 66% #2 of 2 Official leaderboard
TheoremQA 42.4% #2 of 2 Lab model card

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MBPP 88.2% #4 of 71 Lab model card
BigCodeBench 50.8% #18 of 69 Official leaderboard
HumanEval 86.6% #34 of 101 Lab model card
LiveCodeBench 55.5% #25 of 54 Lab model card
BigCodeBench-Hard 25.4% #45 of 96 Official leaderboard
FullStackBench 56.9% #5 of 10 Official leaderboard
MultiPL-E 75.1% #10 of 18 Lab model card
AutoCodeBench 34.3% #26 of 34 Official leaderboard
Multi-SWE-bench mini 6.00% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
METR Time Horizon 5.8 min #27 of 31 Official leaderboard
ArtifactsBench (Gemini 2.5 Pro 0506 judge) 34.5% #16 of 18 Official leaderboard
OIBench 1.80% #8 of 9 Official leaderboard
Multi-SWE-bench 2.57% #10 of 11 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 16% #105 of 112 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
WebWalkerQA 33.3% #1 of 5 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard v2 51% #7 of 21 Official leaderboard
AceBench 74.7% #6 of 16 Official leaderboard
ComplexFuncBench 40.1% #5 of 11 Official leaderboard
AgentBench FC 40.8% #7 of 12 Official leaderboard
C3-Bench 6.25% #18 of 30 Official leaderboard
When2Call 32.8% #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
Galileo Agent Leaderboard 0.82 #20 of 29 Official leaderboard
Step Race 1 #45 of 59 Official leaderboard
BALROG 16.2% #26 of 33 Official leaderboard
SnakeBench 18 #155 of 188 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess -672 #117 of 123 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp-ZH 6.60% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 5.00% #8 of 8 OS World Website, via Epoch AI

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
BRIDGE 51.0 #4 of 39 Official leaderboard
FinEval 69.4% #1 of 7 Official leaderboard
BizFinBench 67.7% #3 of 13 Official leaderboard
MedQA 75.3% #18 of 71 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 79.4% #91 of 138 Official leaderboard
TheAgentCompany 5.70% #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
BizFinBench v2 35.9% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Ego3D-Bench 7.50 #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
VRBench 53.5% #10 of 19 Official leaderboard
SpatialViz-Bench 33.3% #6 of 8 Claim in arxiv.org, via Epoch AI

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
AraTrust 89.2% #2 of 39 Official leaderboard
SimpleSafetyTests 100% #6 of 75 Official leaderboard
Anthropic Red Team 99.6% #16 of 75 Official leaderboard
HELM Safety 93.1 #31 of 75 Official leaderboard
AIR-Bench 2024 59% #53 of 82 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 63.5 #126 of 185 Official leaderboard
BaxBench 10.4% #27 of 34 Official leaderboard
AutoBaxBench 6.67% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 56.4% #66 of 73 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Open LLM Leaderboard v2 48.0 #1 of 99 Official leaderboard
HELM Lite 74.5 #18 of 71 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 52.3% #18 of 27 Lab model card
HELM Capabilities 59.9 #42 of 60 Official leaderboard
Political Science LLM Benchmark 64.8% #32 of 42 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 42.5 #128 of 152 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 24.2 #129 of 151 Official leaderboard
LMCA 13.4% #127 of 147 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 127.7, in line with its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 20 capability results Qwen reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 125.1 to 130.2. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 4 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
IFEval 84.1% IFeval strict-prompt 80.6% Leaderboard, strict, share of instructions followed +3.5 pts
Arena-Hard-Auto 81.2% Arena-Hard 78% Leaderboard +3.2 pts
MMLU-Pro 71.1% MMLU-Pro 71.6% Leaderboard −0.5 pts
GPQA Diamond 49% GPQA 49.1% Epoch AI run Same

Qwen's models over time

Qwen's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen3.7-Plus Qwen3.5-9B Qwen3-14B Qwen2.5-72B Qwen2.5-Coder (1.5B) Qwen2.5-Coder-32B 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 Qwen3.8 Max (0902) Qwen 3.6 Flash

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.

Its system card

Every result in the longer documents the lab published with it. 5 of them aren't in the launch post.