Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 14.8% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct offers 122.9K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is $0.69 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 3.1 8B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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
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 8B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23

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

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

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

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together