Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct leads with 1.2% higher average benchmark score. 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
Qwen2.5-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.
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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26

Llama 4 Scout
Meta
2025-04-05
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Llama 4 Scout

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

Llama 4 Scout
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Llama 4 Scout

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Together

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct