Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 11.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen3 235B A22B 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
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 235B A22B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 235B A22B
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