Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 leads with 14.4% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B was developed as NVIDIA's largest Nemotron variant, designed to provide maximum capability through extensive customization of large-scale foundations. Built with 253 billion parameters and NVIDIA's specialized training, it represents the flagship offering in the Nemotron family.
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.
6 months newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
NVIDIA
2025-04-07
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
2023-12-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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