Qwen 2.5 72B vs Mistral Large 2
Architecture Comparison
SpecQwen 2.5 72BMistral Large 2
TypeDENSEDENSE
Total Parameters72.7B123B
Active Parameters72.7B123B
Layers8088
Hidden Dimension8,19212,288
Attention Heads6496
KV Heads88
Context Length131,072131,072
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Memory Requirements
PrecisionQwen 2.5 72BMistral Large 2
BF16 Weights145.4 GB246.0 GB
FP8 Weights72.7 GB123.0 GB
INT4 Weights36.4 GB61.5 GB
KV-Cache / Token327680 B360448 B
Activation Estimate2.50 GB3.50 GB
Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)
H100 SXM3 GPUs4 GPUs
L40S4 GPUs7 GPUs
Quality Benchmarks
BenchmarkQwen 2.5 72BMistral Large 2
Overall8482
MMLU85.384.0
HumanEval56.053.0
GSM8K91.691.2
MT-Bench86.084.0
Qwen 2.5 72B
MMLU
85.3
HumanEval
56.0
GSM8K
91.6
MT-Bench
86.0
Mistral Large 2
MMLU
84.0
HumanEval
53.0
GSM8K
91.2
MT-Bench
84.0
Capabilities
FeatureQwen 2.5 72BMistral Large 2
Tool Use✓ Yes✓ Yes
Vision✗ No✗ No
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✗ No✗ No
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
Structured Output✓ Yes✓ Yes
API Pricing Comparison
Cheapest Output (Qwen 2.5 72B)
$0.90/M
Input: $0.90/M
Cheapest Output (Mistral Large 2)
$2.50/M
Input: $2.50/M
| Provider | Qwen 2.5 72B In $/M | Out $/M | Mistral Large 2 In $/M | Out $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| together | $0.90 | $0.90 | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| fireworks | $0.90 | $0.90 | — | — |
| mistral | — | — | $2.00 | $6.00 |
Recommendation Summary
- ‣Qwen 2.5 72B scores higher on overall quality (84 vs 82).
- ‣Qwen 2.5 72B is cheaper per output token ($0.90/M vs $2.50/M).
- ‣Qwen 2.5 72B has a smaller memory footprint (145.4 GB vs 246.0 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
- ‣Qwen 2.5 72B is stronger at code generation (HumanEval: 56.0 vs 53.0).
- ‣Qwen 2.5 72B is better at math reasoning (GSM8K: 91.6 vs 91.2).
Compare Other Models
Qwen 2.5 72B vs DeepSeek R1→Qwen 2.5 72B vs DeepSeek V3→Qwen 2.5 72B vs Gemma 3 27B→Qwen 2.5 72B vs Llama 3.1 405B→Qwen 2.5 72B vs Llama 3.1 70B→Qwen 2.5 72B vs Llama 3.1 8B→Mistral Large 2 vs DeepSeek R1→Mistral Large 2 vs DeepSeek V3→Mistral Large 2 vs Gemma 3 27B→Mistral Large 2 vs Llama 3.1 405B→