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Qwen 2.5 Instruct (7B)

Alibaba · 7.6B · open weights

Strongest in Safe-prompt compliance (#32 of 82), weakest in Secure code (#194 of 273). Above par in 4 of 9 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4 and ahead of Grok 4 and DeepSeek V3.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Professional47.2#126/187
Legal43.4#122/162
Safety51.2#152/331
Safe-prompt compliance55.5#32/82
Fairness61.3#34/296
Toxicity avoidance52.6#162/271
Jailbreak resistance48.3#189/271
Harm refusal47.8#191/296
Secure code45.4#194/273

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Qwen 2.5 Instruct (7B), left for the other.

OLMo 7B Instruct Hfwon 6 · lost 0
SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0
PowerMoE 3Bwon 6 · lost 0
Phi 2won 6 · lost 0
Gemma 7B Itwon 6 · lost 0
PowerLM 3Bwon 6 · lost 0
Smollm2 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Jamba Mini 1.7won 6 · lost 0
Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0
Zephyr 7B Betawon 6 · lost 0
Command Rwon 6 · lost 0
OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 7 · lost 0
Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 7 · lost 0
Mixtral 8x7b Instructwon 8 · lost 1
Command R Pluswon 8 · lost 1
Llama 3.1 70B Instructwon 7 · lost 1
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 7 · lost 1
DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 6 · lost 1
Mistral Smallwon 6 · lost 1
H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 5 · lost 1
LFM2 350Mwon 5 · lost 1
Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 5 · lost 1
GLM-4 9B Chatwon 5 · lost 1
Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7b Dpowon 5 · lost 1
CodeLlama 7B Instruct Hfwon 5 · lost 1
Magistral Smallwon 5 · lost 1
Aya 23 8Bwon 5 · lost 1
Grok Build 0.1won 5 · lost 1
H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 5 · lost 1
Magistral Mediumwon 5 · lost 1
LFM2 700Mwon 5 · lost 1
Jamba Large 1.7won 5 · lost 1
SmolLM 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1
Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 5 · lost 1
LFM2 1.2Bwon 5 · lost 1
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 5 · lost 1
Gemma 3 4B Itwon 5 · lost 1
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 7 · lost 2
GPT OSS 20Bwon 7 · lost 2
Grok 3won 7 · lost 2
Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 6 · lost 2
Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 6 · lost 2
Jamba 1.6 Largewon 6 · lost 2
Jamba 1.5 Largewon 6 · lost 2
DeepSeek V3.1won 6 · lost 2
Gemma 2 9B Itwon 6 · lost 2
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 6 · lost 2
DBRX Instructwon 5 · lost 2
Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 5 · lost 2
GPT-3.5 Turbowon 5 · lost 2
Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Laguna Xs 2.1won 4 · lost 2
Qwen2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 2B Itwon 4 · lost 2
Laguna S 2.1won 4 · lost 2
SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 4 · lost 2
Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 4 · lost 2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 4 · lost 2
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 4 · lost 2
Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 4 · lost 2
Command R7Bwon 4 · lost 2
NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 4 · lost 2
Qwen3 8Bwon 4 · lost 2
Mistral 7B Instruct V0.2won 4 · lost 2
Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 4 · lost 2
Open Codestral Mambawon 4 · lost 2
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 4 · lost 2
Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 4 E2Bwon 4 · lost 2
Sarvam 1won 4 · lost 2
Jamba Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 4 E4Bwon 4 · lost 2
Gemma 2 2B Itwon 4 · lost 2
Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Kimi K2.7 Codewon 4 · lost 2
Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 4 · lost 2
Fuguwon 4 · lost 2
Starling Lm 7B Betawon 4 · lost 2
Mercury 2won 4 · lost 2
Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 4 · lost 2
Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 3
DeepSeek R1won 6 · lost 3
Gemma 4 31Bwon 5 · lost 3
Mixtral 8x22b Instructwon 5 · lost 3
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 5 · lost 3
DeepSeek V3.2won 5 · lost 3
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 5 · lost 3
GLM-4.6won 5 · lost 3
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 5 · lost 3
Kimi K2.6won 5 · lost 3
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 5 · lost 3
OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 4 · lost 3
IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 4 · lost 3
Gemini 2.0 Flash Litewon 4 · lost 3
Llama 3 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 3
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 5 · lost 4
Claude Haiku 4.5won 5 · lost 4
DeepSeek V3won 5 · lost 4
Grok 4won 5 · lost 4
Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Aya 23 35Bwon 3 · lost 3
QwQ 32Bwon 3 · lost 3
SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 3 · lost 3
DeepSeek Reasonerwon 3 · lost 3
Mistral Small 24B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Komodo 7B Basewon 3 · lost 3
WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 3 · lost 3
Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Gemma 4 12Bwon 3 · lost 3
Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 3 · lost 3
Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 3 · lost 3
Apertus 8B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
DeepSeek Chatwon 3 · lost 3
LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 3 · lost 3
GLM-5 Turbowon 3 · lost 3
Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 3 · lost 3
Qwen3 Vl 235B A22B Instructwon 3 · lost 3
GPT-5.6 Astrawon 3 · lost 3
EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 3 · lost 3
Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 4 · lost 4
Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 4 · lost 4
Llama 3.1 405B Instructwon 4 · lost 4
Grok 4.3won 4 · lost 4
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 4
Mistral Large 4won 4 · lost 4
GLM-4.5won 4 · lost 4
Mimo V2.6 Flashwon 4 · lost 4
MiniMax M3won 4 · lost 4
GLM-5.2won 4 · lost 4
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 4
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 4 · lost 5
Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 4 · lost 5
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 4 · lost 5
GPT OSS 120Bwon 4 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 5
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 5
Mistral Largewon 3 · lost 4
GPT-4o Miniwon 3 · lost 5
Gemma 2 27B Itwon 3 · lost 5
Command Awon 3 · lost 5
Kimi K2.5won 3 · lost 5
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 3 · lost 5
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 3 · lost 5
Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 2 · lost 4
Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 2 · lost 4
Phi 3 Medium 4k Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 4
Llama 3 70B Chat HFwon 2 · lost 4
GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 2 · lost 4
Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 2 · lost 4
K2 Chatwon 2 · lost 4
Nova Prowon 2 · lost 4
Krutrim 2 Instructwon 2 · lost 4
EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 2 · lost 4
GPT-4won 2 · lost 4
Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 2 · lost 4
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 2 · lost 4
Claude Opus 4.6won 2 · lost 4
GPT-5 Nanowon 3 · lost 6
O3 Miniwon 3 · lost 6
Kimi K2won 3 · lost 6
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 3 · lost 6
Claude 3 Haikuwon 2 · lost 5
Llama 3 70B Instructwon 2 · lost 5
Claude 3 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 5
Llama 3.2 Vision (11B)won 2 · lost 5
Llama 3.2 Vision (90B)won 2 · lost 5
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 2 · lost 6
GPT-6 Lunawon 2 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 2 · lost 6
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 2 · lost 6
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 2 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 2 · lost 6
GPT-6 Solwon 2 · lost 6
Grok 4.5won 2 · lost 6
GPT-5.5won 2 · lost 6
GPT-5.6 Solwon 2 · lost 6
O4 Miniwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 2 · lost 7
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 2 · lost 7
O3won 2 · lost 7
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 7
GPT-5 Miniwon 2 · lost 7
GPT-4.1won 2 · lost 7
Sarvam 30Bwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Gemma 3 27B Itwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen2 57B A14B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Gemma 3 12B Itwon 1 · lost 5
SeaLLM 7B V2won 1 · lost 5
Apertus 70B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Granite 4.0 H Microwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Small 8k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Mini 128k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3 Mini 4k Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen Maxwon 1 · lost 5
Qwen3.5 27Bwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Nova Microwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3 8B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5
Nova Litewon 1 · lost 5
C4ai Aya Expanse 32Bwon 1 · lost 5
C4ai Aya Expanse 8Bwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct HFwon 1 · lost 5
Titan Text Express V1won 1 · lost 5
Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 2 13B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 2 70B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5
Nova Premierwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 1 · lost 5
Fugu Ultra V2won 1 · lost 5
Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 1 · lost 5
Llama 2 7B Chat Hfwon 1 · lost 5
Sarvam 105Bwon 1 · lost 5
Cogito 671B V2 P1won 1 · lost 5
Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5
Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 1 · lost 5
Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 1 · lost 5
Phi 4won 1 · lost 5
Grok 3 Miniwon 1 · lost 5
Gemini 3 Prowon 1 · lost 5
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 1 · lost 5
Qwen2 72B Instructwon 1 · lost 6
Claude 3 Opuswon 1 · lost 6
MiniMax M2.7won 1 · lost 7
GLM-5.1won 1 · lost 7
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 1 · lost 7
Inklingwon 1 · lost 7
O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 7
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 1 · lost 7
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 1 · lost 7
GPT-5.4won 1 · lost 7
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 7
GPT-4owon 1 · lost 8
GPT-4 Turbowon 1 · lost 8
O1won 1 · lost 8
GPT-5.1won 1 · lost 8
Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 0 · lost 6
Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 0 · lost 6
Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 0 · lost 6
MiniMax M2won 0 · lost 6
Hy3won 0 · lost 6
Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 8
Grok 4.6won 0 · lost 8
GPT-5.2won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 5.5won 0 · lost 8
Muse Spark 1.1won 0 · lost 8
Claude Opus 5won 0 · lost 8
Claude Sonnet 4won 0 · lost 9
Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 0 · lost 9
Claude Opus 4won 0 · lost 9
GPT-5won 0 · lost 9

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

3 publications, 12 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

Vals.ai ↗1 measureread 2026-10-19
Vals · LegalBench 69.56%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-10-19
HELM Safety · HarmBench 67.7%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 96%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 98.5%HELM Safety · BBQ 90.6%HELM Safety · XSTest 96.6%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-10-19
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 14.2%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 51.7%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 15.7%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 4.4%Enkrypt · Bias risk 50.7%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 42.7%

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