Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 235B A22B is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2-VL 72B was developed as a large vision-language model, designed to handle multimodal tasks combining visual and textual understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters for integrated vision and language processing, it enables applications requiring sophisticated analysis of images alongside text.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
2023-06-30
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen3 235B A22B
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