Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 12.9% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Scout offers 19.9M more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 4 Scout supports multimodal inputs. Llama 4 Scout is available on 6 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Meta
Llama 4 Scout was created as an exploratory variant in the Llama 4 family, designed to investigate new architectures and optimization strategies. Built as part of Meta's commitment to advancing open-source AI, it serves as a testbed for innovations that may inform future model releases.
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 Scout
Meta
2025-04-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Scout

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

Llama 4 Scout

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

Llama 4 Scout
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together