Model Comparison

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 outperforms in 3 benchmarks (GPQA, IFEval, MBPP), while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is better at 1 benchmark (MT-Bench).

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Cost data unavailable.

Lowest available price from all providers
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NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Input tokens$0.30
Output tokens$0.30
Best providerTogether
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

390.0M diff

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 has 0.4B more parameters than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct, making it 5.1% larger.

NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
8.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
7.6Bparameters
8.0B
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
7.6B
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifies input context (131,072 tokens). Only Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifies output context (8,192 tokens).

NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Input131,072 tokens
Output8,192 tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is licensed under Llama 3.1 Community License, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Llama 3.1 Community License

Open weights

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 was released on 2025-03-18, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct was released on 2024-09-19.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is 6 months newer than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Mar 18, 2025

1.1 years ago

6mo newer
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Sep 19, 2024

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-12-31, while Qwen2.5 7B Instruct's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1's training data extends to 2023-12-31, but cannot make a direct comparison without Qwen2.5 7B Instruct's cutoff date.

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1

Dec 2023

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Higher GPQA score (54.1% vs 36.4%)
Higher IFEval score (79.3% vs 71.2%)
Higher MBPP score (84.6% vs 79.2%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Larger context window (131,072 tokens)
Higher MT-Bench score (87.5% vs 81.0%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
NVIDIA
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks. Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is made by NVIDIA and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 scores MATH-500: 95.4%, MBPP: 84.6%, MT-Bench: 81.0%, IFEval: 79.3%, BFCL v2: 63.6%. Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores GSM8k: 91.6%, MT-Bench: 87.5%, HumanEval: 84.8%, MBPP: 79.2%, MATH: 75.5%.
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 supports an unknown number of tokens and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct supports 131K tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include licensing (Llama 3.1 Community License vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B V1 is developed by NVIDIA and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.