Meta Llama 3.2 3B Instruct vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct is 3.1× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct accepts longer prompts: 131K vs 33K tokens.
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | Qwen2.5 72B Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Meta | qwen |
| Released | 2024-09-25 | 2024-09-19 |
| Input / 1M | $0.05 | $0.36 |
| Output / 1M | $0.33 | $0.40 |
| Cached input / 1M | — | — |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.12 | $0.37 |
| Context | 131K | 33K |
| Max output | 118K | 16K |
| Accepts | text | text |
| Reasoning | No | No |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 2 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.33 | $0.40 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.86% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | — | Operational |
Cost calculator
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
$7.95 per month$0.27 per day
Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
$27.60 per month$0.92 per day
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct saves $19.65 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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