Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 2.9% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.9M more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 4 Maverick supports multimodal inputs. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick was developed as a variant in Meta's fourth-generation language model family, designed to explore specialized capabilities and training approaches. Built to push the boundaries of open-source model development, it represents experimentation with advanced techniques in the Llama lineage.
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 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Maverick

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

Llama 4 Maverick

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

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Sambanova
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together