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Qwen2-72B-Instruct
Qwen2-72B-Instruct is an open-weight model from Alibaba. It ranks #321 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1203.
- Developer
- Alibaba Qwen
- Released
- Jun 6, 2024
- Context window
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- Price in / out, per 1M tokens
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- Weights
- Open · Qianwen LICENSE
- Inputs
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- Reasoning
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- Tool use
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The rating LMArena published at each update since Jun 6, 2024. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.
LMArena, by category
| Leaderboard | Rating | Rank | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TextLMArena | 1203 | 321 / 351 | 37.3K |
| CodingLMArena | 1196 | 319 / 346 | 6.2K |
| MathLMArena | 1235 | 290 / 339 | 4.8K |
| Creative writingLMArena | 1181 | 320 / 349 | 5.5K |
| Instruction followingLMArena | 1181 | 320 / 351 | 14.2K |
| Hard promptsLMArena | 1190 | 320 / 351 | 10.8K |
| Multi-turnLMArena | 1196 | 314 / 349 | 6.7K |
| Long queriesLMArena | 1192 | 321 / 330 | 4.6K |
| ExpertLMArena | 1171 | 304 / 305 | 1.8K |
| Legal and governmentIndustries | 1193 | 319 / 325 | 2.3K |
| Medicine and healthcareIndustries | 1176 | 315 / 325 | 2.1K |
| Business and financeIndustries | 1146 | 328 / 344 | 4.3K |
| ChineseLanguages | 1240 | 283 / 328 | 4.1K |
| SpanishLanguages | 1169 | 270 / 249 | 596 |
| GermanLanguages | 1151 | 275 / 261 | 1.3K |
| FrenchLanguages | 1171 | 266 / 252 | 596 |
| JapaneseLanguages | 1111 | 248 / 236 | 901 |
LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.
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Alibaba Qwen
Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team releases a broad family of open-weight models, from small to frontier scale. Founded 2023 (Qwen), based in Hangzhou. qwenlm.github.io
Questions
Who makes Qwen2-72B-Instruct?
Qwen2-72B-Instruct is made by Alibaba Qwen, founded 2023 (Qwen) and based in Hangzhou.
How does Qwen2-72B-Instruct rank?
#321 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1203 (95% interval 1198–1208) from 37,325 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.
Is Qwen2-72B-Instruct open source?
Qwen2-72B-Instruct has open weights under the Qianwen LICENSE license.