Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
QwQ-32B-Preview leads with 19.2% higher average benchmark score. Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. QwQ-32B-Preview is available on 4 providers. Overall, QwQ-32B-Preview is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 32B was developed as a mid-sized vision-language model, designed to balance multimodal capability with practical deployment considerations. Built with 32 billion parameters for vision and language integration, it serves applications requiring strong visual understanding without flagship-scale resources.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ 32B Preview was introduced as an early access version of the QwQ reasoning model, designed to allow researchers and developers to experiment with advanced analytical capabilities. Built to gather feedback on reasoning-enhanced architecture, it represents an experimental step toward more thoughtful language models.
3 months newer

QwQ-32B-Preview
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-11-28

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-02-28
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
QwQ-32B-Preview
2024-11-28
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview
DeepInfra

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

QwQ-32B-Preview

Qwen2.5 VL 32B Instruct

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