Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2 72B Instruct leads with 47.3% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen2 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Zero is a language model developed by DeepSeek. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 76.5% across 4 benchmarks. It excels particularly in MATH-500 (95.9%), AIME 2024 (86.7%), GPQA (73.3%). It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents DeepSeek's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.6% across 17 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (91.1%), CMMLU (90.1%), HellaSwag (87.6%). Released in 2024, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
6 months newer
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23
DeepSeek R1 Zero
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
Average performance across 20 common benchmarks
DeepSeek R1 Zero
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek R1 Zero
Qwen2 72B Instruct
DeepSeek R1 Zero
Qwen2 72B Instruct