Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 3.1% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers 974.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was created as the most efficient option in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed to provide cutting-edge capabilities with minimal computational overhead. Built for applications where cost and latency are primary concerns, it extends advanced multimodal understanding to resource-conscious deployments.
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

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-01-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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