Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 19.0% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is $0.72 cheaper per million tokens. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 3.2 3B was created as an ultra-compact open-source model, designed to enable on-device and edge deployment scenarios. Built with just 3 billion parameters while retaining instruction-following abilities, it brings Meta's language technology to mobile devices, IoT applications, and resource-constrained environments.
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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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

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

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
DeepInfra

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
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