DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B vs Llama 3.2 90B Instruct Comparison

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B outperforms in 1 benchmarks (GPQA), while Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

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DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Input tokens$0.35
Output tokens$0.40
Best providerDeepinfra
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

75.2B diff

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct has 75.2B more parameters than DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B, making it 508.1% larger.

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
14.8Bparameters
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
90.0Bparameters
14.8B
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
90.0B
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Llama 3.2 90B Instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Llama 3.2 90B Instruct specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B does not.

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is licensed under MIT, while Llama 3.2 90B Instruct uses Llama 3.2.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

MIT

Open weights

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Llama 3.2

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B was released on 2025-01-20, while Llama 3.2 90B Instruct was released on 2024-09-25.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B is 4 months newer than Llama 3.2 90B Instruct.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

Jan 20, 2025

1.2 years ago

3mo newer
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Sep 25, 2024

1.5 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Higher GPQA score (59.1% vs 46.7%)
Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Supports multimodal inputs

Detailed Comparison