Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is available on 9 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 3.3 70B was introduced with refinements to the Llama 3 architecture, designed to incorporate improvements in instruction-following and task performance. Built to continue the evolution of Meta's 70B tier, it provides enhanced quality while maintaining the deployment characteristics valued by the open-source community.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
2 months newer

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Meta
2024-12-06

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Bedrock
Cerebras
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Hyperbolic
Lambda
Sambanova
Together

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct