Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Magistral Small was created as an efficient reasoning-focused variant, designed to bring analytical capabilities to applications with tighter resource constraints. Built to balance problem-solving depth with practical deployment needs, it extends reasoning-enhanced AI to broader use cases.
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.
9 months newer

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

Magistral Small 2506
Mistral AI
2025-06-10
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Magistral Small 2506
2025-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Magistral Small 2506

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct