Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 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 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
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Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-08-29

Qwen3 30B A3B
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 30B A3B
DeepInfra

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
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