Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.5 leads with 6.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct offers 7.2K more tokens in context window than GPT-4.5. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $224.25 cheaper per million tokens. GPT-4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, GPT-4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Cost per million tokens (USD)

GPT-4.5

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

GPT-4.5

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

GPT-4.5

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

GPT-4.5

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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