Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads with 4.4% higher average benchmark score. Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is available on 5 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B was developed as a flagship-tier open-source model, designed to provide advanced capabilities with 90 billion parameters. Built to serve applications requiring high-quality reasoning and generation, it represents a powerful option within the Llama 3.2 series for demanding tasks.
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.
4 months newer

Llama 3.2 90B 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 90B Instruct

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

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Bedrock
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct