Qwen2-VL-72B
AlibabaOpenQwen
Qwen2-VL-72B is a vision-language model from Alibaba. It ranks 141 of 167 on LMArena’s overall vision board with 1047±10 from 5,937 votes. License: Qwen.
Key figures
- Developer
- Alibaba
- License
- Qwen
- First seen (our snapshots)
- 2026-10-26
No data: OCR, Diagrams, Homework, Captioning, Entity recognition, Creative writing, Humor.
Who it suits
- Overall #141 of 167: lower half; consider it mainly for cost or deployment reasons.
- Open weights (Qwen): you can self-host it.
Neighbours on the overall board
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License | Δ vs this model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 138 |  GPT-4o (2024-08-06) OpenAI | 1065 | 3,376 | Proprietary | +18 |
| 139 | GPT-4.1 nano (2025-04-14) OpenAI | 1063 | 1,211 | Proprietary | +16 |
| 140 | Qwen-VL-Max (1119) Alibaba | 1058 | 1,422 | Proprietary | +11 |
| 141 | Qwen2-VL-72B Alibaba | 1047 | 5,937 | Qwen | |
| 142 | SStep-1V 32K StepFun | 1046 | 1,534 | Proprietary | -1 |
| 143 |  Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B (001) Google | 1044 | 6,243 | Proprietary | -3 |
| 144 |  Claude 3 Opus (20240229) Anthropic | 1023 | 15,565 | Proprietary | -24 |
Alternatives · More from Alibaba
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | Qwen3.8-Max Alibaba | 1313 | 9,957 | Proprietary |
| 37 | Qwen3.7-Plus Alibaba | 1278 | 14,212 | Proprietary |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
| 54 | Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba | 1262 | 32,657 | Apache 2.0 |
| 67 | Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct Alibaba | 1247 | 12,724 | Apache 2.0 |
Alternatives · Top open-weight models
| # | Model | Score | Votes | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 |  GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai | 1294 | 16,254 | MIT |
| 34 |  Kimi K2.6 Moonshot AI | 1282 | 16,368 | Modified MIT |
| 38 |  DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-20260910 (Max) DeepSeek | 1278 | 4,100 | MIT |
| 39 | Gemma 4 31B Google | 1276 | 40,219 | Apache 2.0 |
| 44 | Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba | 1269 | 7,614 | Apache 2.0 |
How to read these scores
- If two scores differ by less than their ± intervals, the models are statistically close.
- Each category board is computed independently; do not compare scores across categories.
- Models with few votes move more; ranks of new entries may change.
FAQ
Where does Qwen2-VL-72B rank among vision models?
Overall rank 141 (1047); English rank 143 (1054); Chinese rank 109 (1072) (LMArena, data as of Oct 26, 2026).
How good is Qwen2-VL-72B at OCR?
Qwen2-VL-72B is not on LMArena’s OCR board yet, so there is no score to cite.
Is Qwen2-VL-72B better with Chinese or English prompts?
Chinese board: #109 of 128 (1072); English board: #143 of 167 (1054). The boards are computed separately, so compare ranks rather than scores.
Is Qwen2-VL-72B open-weight?
LMArena lists its license as Qwen, not proprietary; check the license text for commercial use.
How far is Qwen2-VL-72B from #1?
#1 overall is Claude Fable 5 (High) (1325); Qwen2-VL-72B has 1047, 278 points behind.
Sources
LMArena data published Oct 19, 2026.
Synced here Oct 26, 2026.
Price, context length and release date have no reliable public data here and are not shown; all figures come from snapshots, blanks are –.