Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 17.1% higher average benchmark score. Gemma 3 4B offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Gemma 3 4B is $0.69 cheaper per million tokens. Gemma 3 4B 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 4B was developed as a compact yet capable open-source model, designed to strike a balance between performance and resource efficiency. Built with 4 billion parameters and instruction tuning, it provides a practical option for applications requiring moderate capability with manageable computational costs.
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.
5 months newer

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

Gemma 3 4B
2025-03-12
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Gemma 3 4B

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

Gemma 3 4B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Gemma 3 4B
2024-08-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Gemma 3 4B
DeepInfra

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemma 3 4B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Gemma 3 4B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
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