Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 11.2% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
IBM
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the Granite base model, designed to follow instructions reliably in enterprise settings. Built to serve business applications requiring dependable language understanding, it provides IBM's accessible interface for enterprise AI.
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

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
IBM
2025-04-16
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Granite 3.3 8B Instruct
2024-04-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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