Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct leads with 3.1% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. 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
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
7 months newer

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Llama 3.1 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct