Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2 72B Instruct leads with 4.9% higher average benchmark score. 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 Instruct is a language model developed by Meta. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 61.3% across 18 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM-8K (CoT) (84.5%), ARC-C (83.4%), API-Bank (82.6%). It supports a 262K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 9 API providers. Released in 2024, it represents Meta's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 72B Instruct is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.6% across 17 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (91.1%), CMMLU (90.1%), HellaSwag (87.6%). Released in 2024, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
Launched on the same date
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta
2024-07-23
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 30 common benchmarks
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Qwen2 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 72B Instruct
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Qwen2 72B Instruct
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together
Qwen2 72B Instruct