Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 32B leads with 15.1% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 32B offers 116.7K more tokens in context window than Qwen2.5 72B Instruct. Both models have similar pricing. Overall, Qwen3 32B 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 32B was developed as a dense 32-billion-parameter model in the Qwen3 family, designed to provide strong language understanding without mixture-of-experts complexity. Built for applications requiring straightforward deployment and reliable performance, it serves as a capable mid-to-large-scale foundation model.
7 months newer

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

Qwen3 32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3 32B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3 32B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3 32B

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3 32B

Qwen3 32B
DeepInfra
Novita
Sambanova