Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Qwen3.5-4B Comparison

Comparing Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and Qwen3.5-4B across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

3 benchmarks

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct outperforms in 1 benchmarks (IFEval), while Qwen3.5-4B is better at 2 benchmarks (GPQA, MMLU-Pro).

Qwen3.5-4B 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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Meta
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Input tokens$0.20
Output tokens$0.20
Best providerLambda
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-4B
Input tokens$0.00
Output tokens$0.00
Best providerUnknown Organization
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Model Size

Parameter count comparison

66.0B diff

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has 66.0B more parameters than Qwen3.5-4B, making it 1650.0% larger.

Meta
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
70.0Bparameters
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-4B
4.0Bparameters
70.0B
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
4.0B
Qwen3.5-4B

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct specifies input context (128,000 tokens). Only Llama 3.3 70B Instruct specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Meta
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Input128,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-4B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Qwen3.5-4B supports multimodal inputs, whereas Llama 3.3 70B Instruct does not.

Qwen3.5-4B can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3.5-4B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is licensed under Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement, while Qwen3.5-4B uses Apache 2.0.

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

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Llama 3.3 Community License Agreement

Open weights

Qwen3.5-4B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct was released on 2024-12-06, while Qwen3.5-4B was released on 2026-03-02.

Qwen3.5-4B is 15 months newer than Llama 3.3 70B Instruct.

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Dec 6, 2024

1.3 years ago

Qwen3.5-4B

Mar 2, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.2yr newer

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)
Higher IFEval score (92.1% vs 89.8%)
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Qwen3.5-4B

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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team

Supports multimodal inputs
Higher GPQA score (76.2% vs 50.5%)
Higher MMLU-Pro score (79.1% vs 68.9%)

Detailed Comparison

AI Model Comparison Table
Feature
Meta
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3.5-4B