Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct leads with 9.1% higher average benchmark score. Overall, Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 7B was developed as an efficient vision-language model, designed to provide multimodal understanding with minimal computational requirements. Built with 7 billion parameters for integrated visual and textual processing, it serves applications requiring practical vision-language capabilities with constrained resources.
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Microsoft
2024-08-23

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

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