Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads with 9.8% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 11B Instruct is available on 6 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 3.2 11B was introduced as a mid-sized variant in the Llama 3.2 family, designed to offer enhanced capabilities while maintaining efficiency. Built to provide a balanced option for applications requiring more than lightweight models but less than flagship sizes, it serves diverse use cases in the open-source community.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 72B was created as the flagship vision-language model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced multimodal understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters optimized for visual and textual reasoning, it represents Qwen's most capable offering for tasks requiring integrated image and language processing.
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Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
2023-12-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Sambanova

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Llama 3.2 11B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Together

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct