Model comparison

GPT-6 Sol vs Qwen2-72B

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

GPT-6 Sol OpenAI

49.2

Rank #46 Confirmed

Qwen2-72B Alibaba (Qwen)

29.5

Rank #294 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-6 Sol scores higher in 9 categories and Qwen2-72B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-6 Sol leads 72.3 to 41.0.
  • Qwen2-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-6 Sol and Qwen2-72B specifications
GPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
ProviderOpenAIAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index49.229.5
Released2026-09-222024-06-07
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$2—
Output $ / M tokens$10—
Results tracked2226

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Category by category

Coding GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 59.6 (#11), Qwen2-72B: 28.7 (#303)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Coding14531196
DeepSWE68.8%—
FrontierCode49.3%—
LMArena WebDev1692—
WeirdML—11.3%
BigCodeBench Instruct—38.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—54%

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 33.5 (#49), Qwen2-72B: 16.9 (#138)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
TheAgentCompany—1.1%
GDP.pdf28%—
METR Time Horizons—29.9%

Reasoning GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 49.3 (#34), Qwen2-72B: 22.2 (#184)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Hard Prompts14201191
NYT Connections (extended)90.1%—
EBR-Bench53.3%—
Epoch Capabilities Index—125.27

Math GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 35.8 (#135), Qwen2-72B: 27.9 (#232)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Math14041235
MATH Level 5—39.1%

Knowledge GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 43.0 (#87), Qwen2-72B: 21.2 (#270)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Expert14491171
GPQA Diamond—40.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate6.5%—
MMLU—82.4%

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-6 Sol: 47.6 (#9), Qwen2-72B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
Furniture Assembly58.3%—

Multilingual GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 51.0 (#113), Qwen2-72B: 36.0 (#239)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Non-English13891176
LMArena Chinese14161240
LMArena Russian14071169
LMArena Spanish13771168
LMArena French—1169
LMArena German—1151
LMArena Japanese—1111
LMArena Korean—1083

Instruction Following GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 74.4 (#97), Qwen2-72B: 62.0 (#236)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Instruction Following14061181

Long Context GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 43.2 (#100), Qwen2-72B: 36.1 (#230)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Longer Query14151193

Writing & Preference GPT-6 Sol leads

GPT-6 Sol: 72.3 (#15), Qwen2-72B: 41.0 (#236)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-6 SolQwen2-72B
LMArena Text13961203
LMArena Creative Writing13921181
LMArena Multi-Turn14051195
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2125—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-6 Sol better than Qwen2-72B?

GPT-6 Sol is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is GPT-6 Sol or Qwen2-72B better for coding?

GPT-6 Sol scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 28.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do GPT-6 Sol and Qwen2-72B share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-6 Sol has 22 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2-72B has 26.

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