Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 3.9% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct offers 75.3K more tokens in context window than Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct. Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct is $0.54 cheaper per million tokens. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 24B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of the 24B base model, designed to follow user instructions reliably. Built to serve general-purpose applications requiring moderate capability, it balances performance with deployment practicality.
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

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-01-30
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
2023-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct
DeepInfra
Mistral AI


Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Mistral Small 3 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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