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Qwen2 72B Instruct

Alibaba · 72B

Strongest in Toxicity avoidance (#25 of 268), weakest in Human preference (#259 of 354). Above par in 7 of 9 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Sonnet 5 and GPT-5 and ahead of Gemini 2.5 Pro and DeepSeek R1.

§ 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.

Safety55.3−6.1#45/3292/3

Toxicity avoidance58.1−0.9#25/2681/1

Jailbreak resistance61.5−3.5#28/2681/1

Safe-prompt compliance56.2−4.2#28/821/1

Harm refusal55.2−6.3#69/2922/2

Fairness50.8−19.2#102/2922/2

Secure code56.4−9.8#102/2701/1

Human preference43.4−25.4#259/3541/1

§ 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 Qwen2 72B Instruct, left for the other.

SmolLM 1.7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

H2o Danube3 500M Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Laguna Xs 2.1won 6 · lost 0

LFM2 350Mwon 6 · lost 0

RakutenAI 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Falcon Mamba 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

GLM-4 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

CodeLlama 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2 7B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Magistral Smallwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba Mini 1.7won 6 · lost 0

Magistral Small 1.2won 6 · lost 0

Aya 23 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

Laguna S 2.1won 6 · lost 0

Falcon H1 0.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7Bwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

H2o Danube3 4B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Ling 3.0 Flash VLwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba 1.6 Miniwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba Large 1.7won 6 · lost 0

NexusRaven V2 13Bwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen3 8Bwon 6 · lost 0

Granite 3.2 8B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Mimo V2.6 Pro Ultraspeedwon 6 · lost 0

Phi-4 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 3B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Aya 23 35Bwon 6 · lost 0

Granite 3.0 1B A400M Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Jamba 1.6 Largewon 6 · lost 0

Jamba Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Yi 1.5 9B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0

SeaLLMs V3 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek Reasonerwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 1.5B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

WizardLM 2.8x22Bwon 6 · lost 0

IBM Granite 4.0 Microwon 6 · lost 0

Hunyuan A13B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Gemma2 9B Cpt Sea Lionv3 Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Reflection Llama 3.1 70Bwon 6 · lost 0

Apertus 8B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

DeepSeek Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 32B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

LongWriter Glm4 9Bwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 14B Instruct 1Mwon 6 · lost 0

Sarvam 30Bwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen2.5 14B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Phi 3 Medium 128k Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Granite 4.0 H Microwon 6 · lost 0

Phi 3.5 Mini Instructwon 6 · lost 0

Qwen1.5 72B Chatwon 6 · lost 0

Command Rwon 6 · lost 0

OLMo 2 32B Instructwon 6 · lost 0

OLMoE 1B-7B Instructwon 7 · lost 0

Mistral Instruct v0.1 (7B)won 7 · lost 0

Mistral Instruct v0.3 (7B)won 7 · lost 0

OLMo 2 7B Instructwon 7 · lost 0

OLMo 7B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

SmolLM2 1.7B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Phi-3 Mini 128K Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Zephyr 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0

Gemma 7B ITwon 8 · lost 0

Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2won 8 · lost 0

Nous Hermes 2 Mixtral 8x7B DPOwon 8 · lost 0

Llama 3.2 3B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Starling LM 7B Betawon 8 · lost 0

Granite 3.0 8B Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Qwen1.5 14B Chatwon 8 · lost 0

Phi-3 Medium 4K Instructwon 8 · lost 0

Amazon Nova Microwon 8 · lost 0

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chatwon 9 · lost 0

DBRX Instructwon 9 · lost 0

Mixtral 8x7B Instructwon 9 · lost 0

GPT-3.5 Turbowon 9 · lost 0

Llama 3 8B Instructwon 9 · lost 0

Mixtral 8x22B Instructwon 9 · lost 0

Llama 3.1 8B Instructwon 8 · lost 1

Gemma 2B ITwon 7 · lost 1

Phi-3 Mini 4K Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Granite 3.0 2B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Phi-3 Small 8K Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Granite 3.1 2B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Granite 3.1 8B Instructwon 7 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8Bwon 7 · lost 1

Aya Expanse 8Bwon 7 · lost 1

Jamba 1.5 Miniwon 7 · lost 1

Amazon Nova Litewon 7 · lost 1

Claude 3 Haikuwon 7 · lost 1

Qwen 2.5 Instruct (7B)won 6 · lost 1

Llama 3.2 1B Instructwon 6 · lost 1

RakutenAI 7B Chatwon 5 · lost 1

PowerMoE 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 2won 5 · lost 1

PowerLM 3Bwon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM2 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

SEA LION V1 7B ITwon 5 · lost 1

Grok Build 0.1won 5 · lost 1

Command R7Bwon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 700Mwon 5 · lost 1

SmolLM 360M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Open Codestral Mambawon 5 · lost 1

LFM2 1.2Bwon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 E2Bwon 5 · lost 1

Sarvam 1won 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 E4Bwon 5 · lost 1

Komodo 7B Basewon 5 · lost 1

Kimi K2.7 Codewon 5 · lost 1

Gemma 4 12Bwon 5 · lost 1

Fuguwon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.2 2B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.0 3B A800M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Qwen2 VL 72Bwon 5 · lost 1

GLM-5 Turbowon 5 · lost 1

Granite 3.1 3B A800M Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Smaug Llama 3 70B Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 3 Small 128k Instructwon 5 · lost 1

K2 Chatwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B SFTwon 5 · lost 1

Llama 3.1 Tulu 3 8B DPOwon 5 · lost 1

EAI SageAlign 8B LoRAwon 5 · lost 1

Phi 3.5 MoE Instructwon 5 · lost 1

Internlm2 Chat 20Bwon 5 · lost 1

Mistral Small 3 24B Instructwon 7 · lost 2

Command R+won 7 · lost 2

Llama 3.1 70B Instructwon 7 · lost 2

Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 7 · lost 2

Llama 4 Maverick Instructwon 7 · lost 2

Llama 3.1 405B Instructwon 7 · lost 2

Gemini 1.5 Prowon 7 · lost 2

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Litewon 7 · lost 2

Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 7 · lost 2

Grok 4won 7 · lost 2

Llama 2 7B Chatwon 6 · lost 2

Llama 2 13B Chatwon 6 · lost 2

Llama 2 70B Chatwon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 2 2B ITwon 6 · lost 2

Jamba 1.5 Largewon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 3 4B ITwon 6 · lost 2

Magistral Mediumwon 6 · lost 2

Llama 3.3 70B Instructwon 6 · lost 2

QwQ 32Bwon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 3 12B ITwon 6 · lost 2

Command Awon 6 · lost 2

Gemma 3 27B ITwon 6 · lost 2

Qwen3 30B A3B Instructwon 6 · lost 2

DeepSeek V3.1won 6 · lost 2

GLM-4.6won 6 · lost 2

Grok 4.1 Fastwon 6 · lost 2

DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 6 · lost 2

Grok 4.3won 6 · lost 2

MiMo V2.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 2

DeepSeek V4 Prowon 6 · lost 2

MiMo V2.6 Prowon 6 · lost 2

Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 6 · lost 2

MiniMax M3won 5 · lost 2

Dolphin 2.5 Mixtral 8x7bwon 4 · lost 2

GPT-5.6 Astrawon 4 · lost 2

GPT OSS Safeguard 20Bwon 4 · lost 2

Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 4 · lost 2

EAI Llama 3.1 8B Instruct SageAlignwon 4 · lost 2

Granite 4.0 H Tinywon 4 · lost 2

Krutrim 2 Instructwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3 8B Instruct RRwon 4 · lost 2

Nova Premierwon 4 · lost 2

Fugu Ultra V2won 4 · lost 2

Sarvam 105Bwon 4 · lost 2

Llama 3.2 Vision (90B)won 4 · lost 2

Llama 3 70B Instructwon 6 · lost 3

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 6 · lost 3

GPT-4o miniwon 6 · lost 3

GPT-4.1 nanowon 6 · lost 3

DeepSeek V3won 6 · lost 3

Grok 3won 6 · lost 3

Gemma 2 9B ITwon 5 · lost 3

Aya Expanse 32Bwon 5 · lost 3

GPT-4won 5 · lost 3

Amazon Nova Prowon 5 · lost 3

Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instructwon 5 · lost 3

Qwen Maxwon 5 · lost 3

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12Bwon 5 · lost 3

GLM-4.5won 5 · lost 3

DeepSeek V3.2won 5 · lost 3

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55Bwon 5 · lost 3

Gemma 4 26B A4Bwon 5 · lost 3

Kimi K2.5won 5 · lost 3

Gemma 4 31Bwon 5 · lost 3

GPT-5.6 Lunawon 5 · lost 3

GLM-5.3 Flashwon 5 · lost 3

GLM-5.2won 5 · lost 3

Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 5 · lost 3

Qwen3.8 Maxwon 5 · lost 3

GPT-4.1 miniwon 5 · lost 4

Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 5 · lost 4

DeepSeek R1won 5 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Prowon 5 · lost 4

Titan Text Express V1won 3 · lost 3

Llama 3 8B Instruct MopeyMulewon 3 · lost 3

Claude Sonnet 4.6won 3 · lost 3

Claude Opus 4.6won 3 · lost 3

Phi 4won 4 · lost 4

Granite 4.0 H Smallwon 4 · lost 4

Mercury 2won 4 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 35B A3Bwon 4 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 27Bwon 4 · lost 4

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instructwon 4 · lost 4

Qwen3.5 122B A10Bwon 4 · lost 4

Mistral Large 4won 4 · lost 4

GPT-6 Lunawon 4 · lost 4

GPT-6 Solwon 4 · lost 4

Kimi K2.6won 4 · lost 4

GLM-5.1won 4 · lost 4

Grok 4.5won 4 · lost 4

MiMo V2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 4

Qwen3.7 Maxwon 4 · lost 4

GPT-5.4won 4 · lost 4

GPT-5.5won 4 · lost 4

GPT-5.6 Solwon 4 · lost 4

Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 4 · lost 4

Qwen2.5 72B Instructwon 4 · lost 5

GPT OSS 20Bwon 4 · lost 5

GPT-4owon 4 · lost 5

GPT OSS 120Bwon 4 · lost 5

O3 Miniwon 4 · lost 5

Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 5

Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 4 · lost 5

Claude Sonnet 4.5won 4 · lost 5

MiniMax M2won 3 · lost 5

Qwen3.5 397B A17Bwon 3 · lost 5

Grok 4.6won 3 · lost 5

GPT-5.6 Terrawon 3 · lost 5

Claude Opus 5won 3 · lost 5

Cogito 671B V2 P1won 2 · lost 4

Meta SecAlign 8Bwon 2 · lost 4

Mistral NeMo Minitron 8B Instructwon 2 · lost 4

Grok 3 Miniwon 2 · lost 4

GLM-4.5 Airwon 2 · lost 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Litewon 2 · lost 4

GPT-4.5won 2 · lost 4

Gemini 3 Prowon 2 · lost 4

O4 Miniwon 3 · lost 6

Claude Haiku 4.5won 3 · lost 6

GPT-4.1won 3 · lost 6

Kimi K2won 3 · lost 6

Claude 3 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 6

Gemma 2 27B ITwon 2 · lost 6

GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 6

Claude Opus 4.8won 2 · lost 6

Claude Opus 5.5won 2 · lost 6

GPT-4 Turbowon 2 · lost 7

Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 7

Claude Sonnet 4won 2 · lost 7

Claude Opus 4won 2 · lost 7

GPT-5.1won 2 · lost 7

Foundation Sec 8B Instructwon 1 · lost 5

Apriel 1.5 15B Thinkerwon 1 · lost 5

Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinkingwon 1 · lost 5

Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 1 · lost 6

MiniMax M2.7won 1 · lost 7

Grok 4.7won 1 · lost 7

Inklingwon 1 · lost 7

Hy3won 1 · lost 7

Muse Spark 1.1won 1 · lost 7

Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 7

Claude 3 Opuswon 1 · lost 8

O1 Miniwon 1 · lost 8

GPT-5 nanowon 1 · lost 8

GPT-5 miniwon 1 · lost 8

O1won 1 · lost 8

O3won 1 · lost 8

GPT-5won 1 · lost 8

Claude Sonnet 5won 0 · lost 8

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

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

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-11-10

LMArena Text 1262

HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-11-10

HELM Safety · HarmBench 76.8%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 98.5%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 99.1%HELM Safety · BBQ 95.1%HELM Safety · XSTest 96.9%

Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-11-10

Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 3.2%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 12.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 9.7%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 0.6%Enkrypt · Bias risk 84.2%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 20%

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