Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 3.7% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 3.1 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.1 70B was created as a balanced open-source model, designed to provide strong performance with 70 billion parameters while remaining practical for many deployment scenarios. Built to serve as a versatile foundation for fine-tuning and application development, it combines capability with accessibility in the open-source ecosystem.
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 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

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

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

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

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together