Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 26.9% 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-Qwen-1.5B was created through distillation into an ultra-compact Qwen architecture, designed to enable reasoning capabilities on resource-constrained devices. Built with just 1.5 billion parameters, it brings advanced analytical techniques to edge computing and mobile scenarios.
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 Qwen 1.5B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

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

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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