Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 leads with 12.2% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct offers 108.5K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is $0.83 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct is available on 8 providers. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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
Qwen3 235B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3 235B, designed to follow user instructions while leveraging the model's large-scale architecture. Built to provide advanced instruction-following with efficient mixture-of-experts design, it serves applications requiring both capability and practical deployment.
12 months newer

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

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Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

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Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

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Lambda
Replicate
Together

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Novita