Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 7.7% higher average benchmark score. Gemma 3 12B offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Gemma 3 12B is $0.60 cheaper per million tokens. Gemma 3 12B supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Gemma 3 12B was developed as part of the third generation of Google's open-source model family, designed to provide enhanced capabilities in a mid-sized format. Built with improved architecture and training techniques, it balances performance with practical deployment considerations for diverse use cases.
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

Gemma 3 12B
2025-03-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Gemma 3 12B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 8 common benchmarks

Gemma 3 12B

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

Gemma 3 12B
DeepInfra

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemma 3 12B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemma 3 12B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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