Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
GPT-4.5 leads with 5.0% higher average benchmark score. 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
Qwen2.5-VL 72B was created as the flagship vision-language model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced multimodal understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters optimized for visual and textual reasoning, it represents Qwen's most capable offering for tasks requiring integrated image and language processing.
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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26

GPT-4.5
OpenAI
2025-02-27
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

GPT-4.5

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

GPT-4.5
OpenAI

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

GPT-4.5

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

GPT-4.5

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct