Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. 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
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
6 months newer

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Context window and performance specifications
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

GPT-4.5

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

GPT-4.5

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct