Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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-Next 80B Base was introduced as an experimental base model with 80 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to explore advanced mixture-of-experts architectures, it provides a foundation for fine-tuning and research into efficient large-scale model design.
11 months newer

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

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Together

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base