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Llama 3.3 70B vs Qwen 2.5 72B

Side-by-side intelligence, speed, price, benchmarks, strengths and weaknesses for Llama 3.3 70B and Qwen 2.5 72B — refreshed monthly.

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Meta

Llama 3.3 70B

Open sourceDec 2024

Open-weights 70B that matches GPT-4o on most benchmarks.

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Alibaba

Qwen 2.5 72B

Open sourceSep 2024

Apache 2.0 open weights — strong multilingual + math.

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Head to head

Spec
Llama 3.3 70B
Qwen 2.5 72B
Intelligence index↑ better
Winner66
62
Speed↑ better
Winner200 tok/s
55 tok/s
Time to first token↓ better
Winner0.4 s
0.5 s
Context window↑ better
128k
128k
Max output↑ better
4k
Winner8k
Input price↓ better
Winner$0.23 / 1M tokens
$0.40 / 1M tokens
Output price↓ better
$0.40 / 1M tokens
$0.40 / 1M tokens
Blended price↓ better
Winner$0.27 / 1M tokens
$0.40 / 1M tokens
License
Open source
Open source
Input modalities
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Output modalities
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Benchmark showdown

MMLU
Llama 3.3 70B
86.0
Qwen 2.5 72B
85.3
MMLU Pro
Llama 3.3 70B
68.9
Qwen 2.5 72B
71.1
GPQA
Llama 3.3 70B
50.5
Qwen 2.5 72B
49.0
MATH
Llama 3.3 70B
77.0
Qwen 2.5 72B
83.1
HumanEval
Llama 3.3 70B
88.4
Qwen 2.5 72B
86.6

Strengths, weaknesses and best-for

Llama 3.3 70B
Strengths
  • Open weights
  • Fast on Groq / Cerebras
  • Cheap
Weaknesses
  • No vision
  • Smaller context than peers
Best for
  • Self-hosting
  • EU data residency
  • Cost-sensitive workloads
Qwen 2.5 72B
Strengths
  • Open weights
  • Strong on Chinese
  • Great on math
Weaknesses
  • Less English fine-tuning data than Llama
Best for
  • Self-hosting
  • Chinese / multilingual apps

Quick verdict

  • Pick Llama 3.3 70B if you want it smarter, faster and cheaper.

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