Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5-VL 72B was created as the flagship vision-language model in the Qwen 2.5 series, designed to provide advanced multimodal understanding. Built with 72 billion parameters optimized for visual and textual reasoning, it represents Qwen's most capable offering for tasks requiring integrated image and language processing.
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.
7 months newer

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-01-26

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

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base