Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ vs Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 August 2026.
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
70.6 B
Context
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30d
203 K
llama3.1 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ | Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 73.0 B | 70.6 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 131,072 |
| Licence | other | llama3.1 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 452,522 | 203,439 |
| Downloads all time | 12.4 M | 24.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2024-07-16 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.40 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.40 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.80 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | 6.6 |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 16,384 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 2 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
$0.80
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
1.3 M203 K
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
A overtook B on 5 Sep
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16
57.2 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct · fp16
166.3 GB / 24 GB