Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct leads with 23.4% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Microsoft
Phi-4 Mini was created as an even more compact variant of Phi-4, designed to bring fourth-generation capabilities to the smallest possible footprint. Built for extreme efficiency scenarios, it enables AI capabilities on devices and applications where resources are severely constrained.
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

Phi 4 Mini
Microsoft
2025-02-01
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Phi 4 Mini

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Phi 4 Mini
2024-06-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Phi 4 Mini

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra

Phi 4 Mini

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Phi 4 Mini

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
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