Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B leads with 3.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B was developed as a mid-sized distilled variant based on Qwen, designed to balance reasoning capability with practical deployment considerations. Built to provide strong analytical performance while remaining accessible, it serves applications requiring reliable reasoning without flagship-scale 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.
4 months newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

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

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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