Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp leads with 21.1% higher average benchmark score. DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp offers 90.1K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp was introduced as an experimental release, designed to test new architectural innovations and training methodologies. Built to explore the boundaries of mixture-of-experts design, it serves as a research preview for techniques that may be incorporated into future stable releases.
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.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
DeepSeek
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

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

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Novita
ZeroEval

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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