Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 leads with 12.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 offers 8.2K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3 235B, designed to follow user instructions while leveraging the model's large-scale architecture. Built to provide advanced instruction-following with efficient mixture-of-experts design, it serves applications requiring both capability and practical deployment.
10 months newer

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

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
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