Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B was developed as a compact distilled model, designed to provide reasoning capabilities in an efficient 7B parameter package. Built to extend analytical AI to a broad range of applications, it balances capability with the practical benefits of a smaller model size.
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 7B
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 7B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base