Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Llama 4 Scout is available on 6 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
7 months newer

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

Llama 4 Scout
Meta
2025-04-05
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 4 Scout
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Together

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct