Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.5 leads with 2.9% higher average benchmark score. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
GPT-4.5 was developed as an intermediate advancement between GPT-4 and GPT-5, designed to incorporate incremental improvements in reasoning, factuality, and instruction-following. Built to bridge generational capabilities while maintaining compatibility with existing applications, it represents a refinement of the GPT-4 architecture with enhanced performance characteristics.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QVQ-72B Preview was introduced as an experimental visual question answering model, designed to combine vision and language understanding for complex reasoning tasks. Built to demonstrate advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, it represents Qwen's exploration into models that can analyze and reason about visual information.
2 months newer

QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-12-25

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

GPT-4.5

QvQ-72B-Preview
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

QvQ-72B-Preview

GPT-4.5

QvQ-72B-Preview

GPT-4.5

QvQ-72B-Preview