Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Devstral Small 1.1 offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Devstral Small was developed as a more efficient development-focused model, designed to bring software engineering assistance to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide coding capabilities with reduced computational requirements, it enables developer tools in environments where efficiency is paramount.
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.
9 months newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Devstral Small 1.1

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

Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral AI

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Devstral Small 1.1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Devstral Small 1.1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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