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qwen2-72b-instruct

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

qwen2-72b-instruct 1203.2 qwen2-72b-instruct · 95% interval 1198.3–1208.1 · 37,325 votes · 2026-10-15

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,239.90 rating

Confidence interval: 1,228.33 – 1,251.47

4078 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,195.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.76 – 1,204.53

6249 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,180.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,171.27 – 1,190.23

5504 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,222.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,216.01 – 1,228.03

19928 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,087.16 rating

Confidence interval: 1,079.84 – 1,094.49

23757 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,171.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,156.37 – 1,185.65

1763 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,170.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,143.77 – 1,197.03

596 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,150.79 rating

Confidence interval: 1,132.83 – 1,168.74

1340 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,190.46 rating

Confidence interval: 1,183.19 – 1,197.73

10780 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,205.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,196.96 – 1,214.32

6483 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,146.35 rating

Confidence interval: 1,135.68 – 1,157.03

4345 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,165.60 rating

Confidence interval: 1,156.47 – 1,174.73

5791 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,192.92 rating

Confidence interval: 1,178.95 – 1,206.88

2262 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,195.17 rating

Confidence interval: 1,185.82 – 1,204.52

6456 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,230.63 rating

Confidence interval: 1,220.67 – 1,240.60

4235 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,175.58 rating

Confidence interval: 1,161.02 – 1,190.15

2067 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,192.93 rating

Confidence interval: 1,185.37 – 1,200.49

10308 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,201.67 rating

Confidence interval: 1,193.86 – 1,209.48

9976 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,181.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,174.25 – 1,187.77

14194 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,110.89 rating

Confidence interval: 1,089.63 – 1,132.14

901 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,082.70 rating

Confidence interval: 1,060.95 – 1,104.45

1167 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,192.09 rating

Confidence interval: 1,181.95 – 1,202.22

4614 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,234.75 rating

Confidence interval: 1,225.34 – 1,244.15

4835 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,195.48 rating

Confidence interval: 1,186.30 – 1,204.67

6698 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,175.87 rating

Confidence interval: 1,169.48 – 1,182.25

17397 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,203.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,198.33 – 1,208.14

37325 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,168.74 rating

Confidence interval: 1,158.34 – 1,179.14

4555 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-15 · rating

qwen2-72b-instruct

1,168.78 rating

Confidence interval: 1,141.05 – 1,196.51

596 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
qwen2-72b-instruct
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

qwen2-72b-instruct

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
Qianwen LICENSE