Grok 4.7 vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs 6.0x less per output token than Grok 4.7 ($1.00 vs $6.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 3 benchmarks have a result for both.
Grok 4.7 or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct: which to pick
Only Grok 4.7 has a coding score, 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct for output tokens 6.0x cheaper ($1.00 vs $6.00 per million).
- Shared results
- 3
- Grok 4.7 only
- 96
- Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct only
- 3
- Like-for-like categories
- 1 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 46.4.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1255.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Grok 4.7 has a Vals Index result, 58.6%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Grok 4.7
Grok 4.7 takes 500K tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Grok 4.7 $0.0050, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Grok 4.7 66.7 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 21.1 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Vision: Chinese: Grok 4.7 1250 against Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct 1107, 23.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Grok 4.7 $6.00 against Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct $1.00 per million output tokens, 6.0x apart.
- Context window
- Grok 4.7 takes 500K tokens, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct 128K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Grok 4.7 | Bars | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| General | 3 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index18 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 84.5% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1637 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 28.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.5% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 57.7% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 73.4% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 42.9% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 69.5% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SciCode | 57.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierCode | 47.6% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 29.5% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1432 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1421 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1663 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1627 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1586 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 46.4 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.4 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | 86.4% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 60.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 50.1% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 3.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 52.3% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 34.2% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 47.1% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 18.3% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 67.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 69.3% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 10.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Vals Science Index | 34.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Robo-bench (Vals AI) | 0.2% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 54.6% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| OSWorld | Not measured | 5.0% | Only Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $10,537 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 25.2% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.1% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 92.7% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 90.2% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.4% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 41.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 29.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1415 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1439 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1427 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1254 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1309 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 36.0% | Only Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.1% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 17.1% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| ProofBench | 26.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1414 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1435 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index8 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.4% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 49.5% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 56.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 62.0% | Only Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1419 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1395 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1423 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1389 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1255 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1275 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1314 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1238 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1274 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1273 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench design | 78.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 58.6% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 76.9% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 65.6% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 40.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 89.4% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| DTBench | 96.0% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMCA | 49.4% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 20.8% | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1399 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1406 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1381 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1231 | 1107 | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1411 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1386 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1449 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1366 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1359 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1383 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1431 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1406 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1399 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1420 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1394 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1416 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1394 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1376 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1229 | 1115 | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1250 | 1107 | Grok 4.7 |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1241 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1217 | Not measured | Only Grok 4.7 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | SpaceXAI Grok 4.7 | Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | xAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | September 21, 2026 | February 1, 2025 |
| Context window | 500K | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.80 |
| Output $/Mtok | $6.00 | $1.00 |
| Coding index | 66.7 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Grok 4.7 better than Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct for coding?
Only Grok 4.7 has a coding score, 66.7 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct for output tokens 6.0x cheaper ($1.00 vs $6.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Grok 4.7 or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?
Grok 4.7 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct costs $0.80 and $1.00. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.7 or Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct?
Grok 4.7, with 500K tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.7 vs Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Grok 4.7's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.