Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 25.3% higher average benchmark score. Ministral 8B Instruct offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Ministral 8B Instruct is $0.55 cheaper per million tokens. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Ministral 8B was developed as a compact yet capable model from Mistral AI, designed to provide strong instruction-following with just 8 billion parameters. Built for applications requiring efficient deployment while maintaining reliable performance, it represents Mistral's smallest production-ready offering.
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.
27 days newer

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI
2024-10-16
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Ministral 8B Instruct

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

Ministral 8B Instruct
Mistral AI

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Ministral 8B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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