Qwen 2.5 VL 72B

Alibaba
Qwen 2.5 VL 72B does more than describe a single image. It analyzes documents, diagrams, tables, user interfaces, and video, recognizes text across orientations, and can localize relevant visual regions. Bounding boxes and points can be returned as structured JSON.
The 72B model accepts text, images, and video and returns text. Qwen also describes long-video understanding and the ability to locate relevant events in time. In the technical report, Qwen 3 VL 32B is the medium-sized model explicitly compared with this checkpoint and reported to surpass it on visual reasoning tasks.
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Weights | Open weightsSource |
| Access | API, LocalSource |
| Parameters | 72BSource |
| Context window | 128,000 tokensSource |
| Weights repository | Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-InstructSource |
| License | qwen (The model card declares a non-SPDX custom/other license; inspect the linked LICENSE before publishing a generic license badge.)Source |
| Architecture | ViT vision encoder + MLP vision-language merger + Qwen language modelSource |
| Input | Text, Image, VideoSource |
| Output | TextSource |
| Reasoning mode | instructSource |
| Tool calling | YesSource |
| Structured output | YesSource |
| Native context window | 32,768 tokensSource |
| Maximum context window | 32,768 tokensSource |
| Parameters | 72 BSource |
| Languages | multilingual; exact count not stated in cardSource |
| Training tokens | 4.1 trillionSource |
| Repository created | 2025-01-27 (Repository creation date is a precise publication proxy, but may differ from the public announcement date or an individual checkpoint's first availability.)Source |
Benchmark meta-analysis
These Gradually indexes place selected published measurements on a 0 to 100 scale. They are not accuracy percentages and do not guarantee results in your application.
Not enough independent results for a score yet
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Method version: benchmark-meta-score-v3
The index includes active measurements from reviewed primary sources when at least five models are compared in the same documented comparison slice across dataset, harness, agent, tools, and trial count. Each benchmark series and evaluator contributes one shared setup slice from the newest capture. When one source and series include several explicitly documented reasoning tiers, the highest documented tier (none through max) is selected, never the best result value. The explicit source label “Non-reasoning” is treated as none. Unknown or ambiguous tiers exclude the model from that series. Within each series, percentages and rates are logit-transformed, other units stay unchanged, and all values are then standardized. A one-factor model then estimates one shared strength per model and, per series, how sharply it separates the models. Area scores move away from that strength only as far as the model's own results in the area support. The overall score weights the core areas at 75% and finance, law and health at 25%. It requires at least eight test series from two sources and three areas. The 0 to 100 scale refers to a fixed reference group of 29 language models whose average sits at 50.
Published model-specific parameters can differ. This is not a controlled experiment; comparisons with such differences are marked provisional.
Unmeasured series are not entered as zero. Where a model has no own results in a core area, its overall strength stands in, and the note “estimated without own results in …” names the area. Fewer test series lead to a larger standard error.
The 95% interval follows from the standard error of 200 recalculations with randomly redrawn test families. It describes how precisely the recorded test series determine the value. It is no prediction for future tasks or for later recalculations with other participants.
The source count is not a count of independent experiments.
OECD handbook on composite indicatorsAll 0 test families and 0 of 0 raw measurements are listed here. The complete calculation for every model is available in the JSON export.
Each evaluator measures different capabilities under its own conditions. Test series, composite indices and their components stay separate. The detailed results below retain their scales, configurations and source dates.
No active result from the reviewed external evaluators can currently be attributed to this model. Other source evidence remains available below.
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These measurements have no matching peer values under the same test conditions. Their original values and sources remain available here.
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One SVG prompt and fixed output settings. Captures are shown only with 0 reported reasoning tokens or documented lack of reasoning controls. Identical test conditions do not make the models' internal compute identical.

A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Qwen 2.5 VL 72B

Reasoning (requested): not specified
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens
Task origin (Simon Willison)22.2 / 100
Next generation in the directory
Section 5.2 (Multimodal Reasoning) names Qwen3-VL-32B as the subject of the paragraph ('Among medium-sized models... Qwen3-VL-32B demonstrates significant advantages') and then states 'Compared to the previous-generation Qwen2.5-VL-72B model, the medium-sized Qwen3-VL model has already surpassed it on reasoning tasks,' the only 'previous-generation' statement in the full paper text and the only Qwen2.5-VL-72B comparison tied to one specific Qwen3-VL size rather than the series generally; the sibling Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B MoE model is named separately in the same paragraph with no predecessor claim.
Qwen3-VL Technical Report (2026-09-19)| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Price | Base API prices without caching or batch discounts. Higher context tiers and other rates are listed under Costs. |
| Input | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Output | Documented modalities. Retrieved September 8, 2026. |
| Research status | Research date September 8, 2026. 4 source URLs checked. This documents the inspected sources, not an exhaustive inventory of every publication. |
| Not found in the inspected sources | active-parameters-billions Original wording Dense checkpoint; no separate activated-parameter count is applicable/published. |
| Unresolved | max-context-tokens Original wording The checked card/report configure 32,768 tokens and document YaRN extension, but do not state an exact tested maximum; the inventory's 128K value was not used as primary evidence. |
| Unresolved | AA benchmark rows Original wording No exact Artificial Analysis model page located in the checked public sitemap. |
| Additional source | Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report (retrieved September 8, 2026) |
| Additional source | Model metadata (retrieved September 8, 2026) |
| Additional source | Qwen2.5-VL official release · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Ollama: cumulative downloads for the popularity index |
| Additional source | Replicate: cumulative runs for the popularity index |
| Additional source | Google Trending Now: limited feed selection for Germany and the US |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| Additional source | Qwen3-VL Technical Report (2026-09-19) |