Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
QvQ-72B-Preview supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.1 8B was developed as an efficient open-source model, designed to bring capable instruction-following to applications with limited computational resources. Built with 8 billion parameters, it provides a lightweight option for developers seeking reliable performance without the overhead of larger models.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QVQ-72B Preview was introduced as an experimental visual question answering model, designed to combine vision and language understanding for complex reasoning tasks. Built to demonstrate advanced multimodal reasoning capabilities, it represents Qwen's exploration into models that can analyze and reason about visual information.
5 months newer

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

QvQ-72B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-12-25
Context window and performance specifications
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

QvQ-72B-Preview

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

QvQ-72B-Preview
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

QvQ-72B-Preview