Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 6.6% higher average benchmark score. Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Mistral AI
Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of the 3.1 base model, designed to deliver improved instruction-following with refinements from the updated architecture. Built to serve diverse applications with enhanced reliability, it advances the Small model line's capabilities.
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 3.1 24B Instruct
Mistral AI
2025-03-17
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

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

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
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