Model Comparison

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct vs Qwen2 7B Instruct

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct outperforms in 3 benchmarks (GPQA, MATH, MMLU), while Qwen2 7B Instruct is better at 0 benchmarks.

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct significantly outperforms across most 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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Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Input tokens$0.35
Output tokens$0.40
Best providerDeepinfra
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

82.4B diff

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct has 82.4B more parameters than Qwen2 7B Instruct, making it 1081.1% larger.

Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
90.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct
7.6Bparameters
90.0B
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
7.6B
Qwen2 7B 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).

Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen2 7B Instruct does not.

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

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is licensed under Llama 3.2, while Qwen2 7B Instruct uses Apache 2.0.

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

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Llama 3.2

Open weights

Qwen2 7B Instruct

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct was released on 2024-09-25, while Qwen2 7B Instruct was released on 2024-07-23.

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is 2 months newer than Qwen2 7B Instruct.

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct

Sep 25, 2024

1.6 years ago

2mo newer
Qwen2 7B Instruct

Jul 23, 2024

1.7 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

Larger context window (128,000 tokens)
Supports multimodal inputs
Higher GPQA score (46.7% vs 25.3%)
Higher MATH score (68.0% vs 49.6%)
Higher MMLU score (86.0% vs 70.5%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen2 7B Instruct

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Meta
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen2 7B Instruct

FAQ

Common questions about Llama 3.2 90B Instruct vs Qwen2 7B Instruct

Llama 3.2 90B Instruct significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is made by Meta and Qwen2 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 3.2 90B Instruct scores AI2D: 92.3%, DocVQA: 90.1%, MGSM: 86.9%, MMLU: 86.0%, ChartQA: 85.5%. Qwen2 7B Instruct scores MT-Bench: 84.1%, GSM8k: 82.3%, HumanEval: 79.9%, C-Eval: 77.2%, AlignBench: 72.1%.
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct supports 128K tokens and Qwen2 7B Instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.
Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Llama 3.2 vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.
Llama 3.2 90B Instruct is developed by Meta and Qwen2 7B Instruct is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.