Qwen2.5 72B Instruct vs Inkling
Inkling leads Qwen2.5 72B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.0 to 7.7, and Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs 10.1x less per output token ($0.40 vs $4.05 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 36 benchmarks have a result for both.
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct or Inkling: which to pick
Only Inkling has a coding score, 31.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Qwen2.5 72B Instruct for output tokens 10.1x cheaper ($0.40 vs $4.05 per million).
- Shared results
- 36
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct only
- 17
- Inkling only
- 66
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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 Inkling has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Inkling
Inkling leads, 25.0 against 7.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Inkling has a AA Agentic Index result, 22.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Inkling has a GPQA Diamond result, 87.1%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Inkling has a MMLU Pro result, 86.3%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Inkling has a Design Arena: websites result, 1224.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Inkling has a Vals Index result, 29.0%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Inkling
Inkling takes 524K tokens against 33K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct $0.0006, Inkling $0.0030 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Inkling has the number, $0.76.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct not benchmarked, Inkling 31.5 from 6 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Math, 47.3 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Qwen2.5 72B Instruct 8.1% against Inkling 88.9%, 80.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct $0.40 against Inkling $4.05 per million output tokens, 10.1x apart.
- Context window
- Qwen2.5 72B Instruct takes 33K tokens, Inkling 524K.
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 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Bars | Inkling | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 6 | ||
| Math | 0 | 3 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| General | 0 | 18 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 36 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 64.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1414 | Only Inkling measured |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 52.1 | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 77.6% | Only Inkling measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 19.2% | Only Inkling measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.8% | Only Inkling measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 14.9% | Only Inkling measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 47.6% | Only Inkling measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 7.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.1% | Only Inkling measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.8% | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 27.6% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 47.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.5% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| FrontierCode | Not measured | 14.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 4.1% | Only Inkling measured |
| WeirdML | 16.0% | 32.3% | Inkling |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 946.0 | Only Inkling measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1292 | 1466 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1292 | 1465 | Inkling |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1404 | Only Inkling measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1399 | Only Inkling measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.7 | 25.0 | Inkling |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.0 | 148.4 | Inkling |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 22.5 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1196 | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 59.9% | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 16.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 14.1% | Only Inkling measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.6% | Only Inkling measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 15.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 28.4% | Only Inkling measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 3.8% | Only Inkling measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.4% | Only Inkling measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 34.5% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 33.8% | Only Inkling measured |
| METR time horizons | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| BALROG | 16.2% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| TheAgentCompany | 5.7% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 87.1% | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 78.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 78.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 49.1% | 87.2% | Inkling |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.6% | 31.9% | Inkling |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 49.1% | 88.3% | Inkling |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 79.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 36.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 50.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 21.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 79.8% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1271 | 1451 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1245 | 1466 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1279 | 1448 | Inkling |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 14.0 | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 14.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 8.1% | 88.9% | Inkling |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 33.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 4.9% | Only Inkling measured |
| ProofBench | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| MATH level 5 | 63.2% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1283 | 1479 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1290 | 1460 | Inkling |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 86.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 83.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.6% | Only Inkling measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.2% | Only Inkling measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 72.0% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 40.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| MMLU | 85.3% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| AI2 Reasoning Challenge | 94.5% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1275 | 1455 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1258 | 1447 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1288 | 1448 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1253 | 1438 | Inkling |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1224 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1201 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1166 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1159 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1161 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1206 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1110 | Only Inkling measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1089 | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 58.3% | Only Inkling measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index018
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 29.0% | Only Inkling measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 72.8% | Only Inkling measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 36.5% | Only Inkling measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.4% | Only Inkling measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 49.4% | Only Inkling measured |
| IFBench | 36.9% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 77.3% | Only Inkling measured |
| DTBench | 62.9% | 87.5% | Inkling |
| LMCA | 13.4% | 37.6% | Inkling |
| HellaSwag | 84.8% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| WinoGrande | 82.3% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| PIQA | 82.6% | Not measured | Only Qwen2.5 72B Instruct measured |
| LMArena Text | 1269 | 1442 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1254 | 1425 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1221 | 1390 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: English | 1283 | 1442 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1252 | 1434 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1273 | 1493 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: German | 1234 | 1445 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1180 | 1429 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1188 | 1403 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: French | 1280 | 1455 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1255 | 1449 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1264 | 1430 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1450 | Only Inkling measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1272 | 1437 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1281 | 1435 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1247 | 1404 | Inkling |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1211 | 1394 | Inkling |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Inkling | 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 72B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen2.5 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 | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | Thinking Machines Inkling |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Qwen | Thinking Machines |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | September 19, 2024 | July 17, 2026 |
| Context window | 33K | 524K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.36 | $0.975 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.40 | $4.05 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 31.5 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 6 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.76 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Qwen2.5 72B Instruct better than Inkling for coding?
Only Inkling has a coding score, 31.5 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen2.5 72B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen2.5 72B Instruct for output tokens 10.1x cheaper ($0.40 vs $4.05 per million).
Which is cheaper, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct or Inkling?
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct costs $0.36 per million input tokens and $0.40 per million output tokens; Inkling costs $0.975 and $4.05. Cost per solved task is known for Inkling only.
Which has the bigger context window, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct or Inkling?
Inkling, with 524K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks is the Qwen2.5 72B Instruct vs Inkling comparison based on?
36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Inkling's on 6. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.