Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2, released by DeepSeek on December 1, 2025, is a large language model with 685 billion total parameters featuring integrated thinking in tool-use and support for both reasoning and direct generation modes. It features a 128K token context window and introduced large-scale agent training across 1,800+ environments. DeepSeek-V3.2 targets agentic workflows, complex instruction following, and coding tasks under an open MIT license.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct is the flagship of Alibaba's Qwen2.5 series, a 72-billion-parameter open-weight model released in September 2024 after training on 18 trillion tokens spanning code, mathematics, and multilingual text. It offers strong generalist performance across coding, instruction-following, and structured reasoning while remaining fully open-weight under Apache 2.0 — a combination that made it a widely referenced model in open-source evaluations and community benchmarking. The 128K context window and built-in structured output support made it a common choice for document analysis and multi-step agentic pipeline development.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19

DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek
2025-12-01
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.2
DeepSeek
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepSeek-V3.2
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepSeek-V3.2
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct