Side-by-side benchmark comparison across knowledge, coding, math, and reasoning.
Qwen2.5-72B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 72 to 33. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
o1-pro is the reasoning model in the pair, while Qwen2.5-72B is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. o1-pro gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Qwen2.5-72B.
Pick Qwen2.5-72B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. o1-pro only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.
Qwen2.5-72B
68.2
o1-pro
79
Qwen2.5-72B
83.1
o1-pro
86
Qwen2.5-72B is ahead overall, 72 to 33. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 82 and 79.
o1-pro has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 79 versus 68.2. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
o1-pro has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 86 versus 83.1. Qwen2.5-72B stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
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