Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct vs GLM 5.2

Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen2.5-VL is a visual language model from the Qwen2.5 series, equipped with strong visual understanding and reasoning capabilities. It can recognize objects, analyze text and charts, understand key events in long videos, and accurately locate targets within images. The model supports structured output, making it suitable for data such as invoices and forms, and performs excellently in multiple benchmark tests.

GLM 5.2

Z.AI · text → text

GLM-5.2 is Z.ai’s flagship model for the era of long-horizon tasks. With a truly usable 1M-token context window, it can handle project-level engineering context, execute long-running tasks more reliably, follow engineering standards more consistently, and complete the full development workflow from requirements to multi-platform deployment in a single task.