Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 8.0% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B was developed as a compact distilled variant, designed to bring reasoning capabilities to a more efficient 8B parameter Llama base. Built to democratize access to reasoning-enhanced models, it provides a lightweight option for applications requiring analytical depth with limited resources.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 72B was developed as the flagship text model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced language capabilities with 72 billion parameters. Built to compete with frontier models in reasoning, coding, and general language tasks, it represents Qwen's most capable instruction-following model in this generation.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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