Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 leads with 28.0% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct offers 108.5K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507. Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is $0.92 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 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
Qwen3 235B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3 235B, designed to follow user instructions while leveraging the model's large-scale architecture. Built to provide advanced instruction-following with efficient mixture-of-experts design, it serves applications requiring both capability and practical deployment.
10 months newer

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Meta
2024-09-25

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
DeepInfra

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
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