> Qwen-72B is an open-weights AI model from Alibaba, released 30 Nov 2023.

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# Qwen-72B

Alibaba

Released 30 Nov 2023

Open

Date verified

[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/qwen-72b-vs-gpt-4-turbo/) [Announcement](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen)

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Index score

Not yet evaluated independently

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Core tests taken

no independent results yet

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Versus the frontier at release

Replaced by [Qwen1.5-72B](https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen1-5-72b/)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

Not plotted: no index score yet.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Reasoning & knowledge

no evidence yet

GPQA Diamond

no result

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

no evidence yet

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

Not on any of the rankings we follow yet.

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Replaced by Qwen1.5-72B; it no longer leads any category among current models.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Facts and sources

Released

30 Nov 2023

Announcement

[github.com ↗](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen)

Release entry

Qwen-72B

Scored as

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Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

not linked

## Alibaba releases · around this one

Tongyi Qianwen

Closed

11 APR 2023

Qwen-7B

Open

3 AUG 2023

Qwen-72B

Open

30 NOV 2023

Qwen1.5

Open

4 FEB 2024

Qwen2

Open

7 JUN 2024

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/qwen-72b/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01