Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is $1.03 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.1 405B was developed as Meta's largest open-source language model, designed to provide frontier-level capabilities with 405 billion parameters. Built to demonstrate that open-source models can match proprietary systems in capability, it enables researchers and developers to experiment with and deploy a powerful foundation model without licensing restrictions.
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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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

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

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Lambda
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together