Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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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
Qwen3-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
7 months newer

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base