Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2 72B Instruct leads with 2.8% higher average benchmark score. Granite 3.3 8B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
Qwen2 72B was developed as the flagship model in the Qwen2 generation, designed to provide advanced language understanding with 72 billion parameters. Built to deliver strong performance across diverse tasks, it represented a significant advancement in Qwen's model capabilities when introduced.
8 months newer

Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23

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

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

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

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Granite 3.3 8B Instruct

Qwen2 72B Instruct