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Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct vs Qwen-72B
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct has 70.6B parameters and Qwen-72B has 72.3B parameters; Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is released under llama3.3 and Qwen-72B under other; at 16-bit, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct needs about 169.3 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour) and Qwen-72B about 173.5 GB (1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour).
| Field | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | Qwen-72B Qwen/Qwen-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Meta Llama | Qwen |
| Task | Text generation | Text generation |
| Modality | Text | Text |
| Parameters, as reported | 70.6B parameters | 72.3B parameters |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | QWenLMHeadModel |
| Library | transformers | transformers |
| Context length | Not stated | 32,768 tokens |
| Repository size | 282.3 GB | 144.6 GB |
| Artifact formats | safetensors, pytorch | safetensors |
| License | llama3.3 | other |
| Access | Access requested at publisher | Open weights, no gate |
| Memory at 16-bit (weights and margin) | 169.3 GB | 173.5 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 16-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Memory at 4-bit (weights and margin) | 42.3 GB | 43.4 GB |
| Cheapest GPUs at 4-bit, per hour | 1x MI300X, $1.85 | 1x MI300X, $1.85 |
| Revision viewed | 6f6073b42301 | b8e18ac61df6 |
| Downloads reported by the hub | 924.1k | 1M |
| Last observed | 2026-09-18 | 2026-10-08 |
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Other Reported Results
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Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
| Benchmark | Conditions | Result | Reported by | Revision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Idavidrein/gpqa | Task diamondMetric diamondSetup GPQA DiamondComparison conditions not established | 51.5152 | EvalEval Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-04-16 |
| LEXam-Benchmark/LEXam | Task mcq_4_choicesMetric mcq_4_choicesComparison conditions not established | 28.19 | LEXam Leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-06-02 |
| LEXam-Benchmark/LEXam | Task open_questionMetric open_questionComparison conditions not established | 41.27 | LEXam Leaderboard Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-06-02 |
| TIGER-Lab/MMLU-Pro | Task mmlu_proMetric mmlu_proComparison conditions not established | 65.92 | EvalEval Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-06-30 |
| joelniklaus/LEXam-hard | Task lexam_hardMetric lexam_hardSetup lighteval, LEXam paper prompts, one response per question, no tools; DeepSeek-R1-0528 judge; mean of the German and English means over the 518 questions, 0-100Comparison conditions not established | 26.78 | SwissLegalEvals per-sample details (lighteval) Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-07-12 |
| openai/gsm8k | Task gsm8kMetric gsm8kComparison conditions not established | 94.8446 | EvalEval Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2025-03-19 |
| thamilvendhan/signalbench | Task access_denyMetric access_denySetup family=access_deny; n=12Comparison conditions not established | 0.0833 | thamilvendhan Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-07-08 |
| thamilvendhan/signalbench | Task memory_labelMetric memory_labelSetup family=memory_label; n=12Comparison conditions not established | 0.5833 | thamilvendhan Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-07-08 |
| thamilvendhan/signalbench | Task srcMetric srcSetup SRC overall; deterministic action-based grader, no LLM judge; seed 0, n=75Comparison conditions not established | 0.4167 | signalbench raw per-item responses Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-07-08 |
| thamilvendhan/signalbench | Task timeMetric timeSetup family=time; n=12Comparison conditions not established | 0.75 | thamilvendhan Reported by a third party |
Evaluated revision not stated | 2026-07-08 |
SAVRN's Notes on Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
70.6B parameters needing 169.3 GB at 16-bit — 141.1 GB of weights — which still fits one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour; 8-bit drops the need to 84.7 GB and 4-bit to 42.3 GB, where an H100 at $1.99 also fits. Budget the pull: 282.2 GB across 53 files, including eight original consolidated .pth checkpoints you can skip if you only need the safetensors. Access is gated and the license is Meta's own llama3.3 terms, so deployment starts with an approval step.
Renting may beat owning: the Index lists it hosted from $0.13 in and $0.40 out per million tokens at Nebius Token Factory up to $1.04 each way at Together AI — against $1.85 an hour for self-hosting, token volume decides, so run your traffic through both columns. Third-party evals on the page include GPQA Diamond 51.5, MMLU-Pro 65.92 and gsm8k 94.84. The page lists no context length; the model derives from Llama-3.1-70B, so confirm the window there before sizing the KV cache. It draws 924.1k downloads a month.
SAVRN's Notes on Qwen-72B
Qwen-72B is the base model of Alibaba's first-generation Qwen series, 72.3B parameters with a 32,768-token context, released in 2023. It still draws about 4 million downloads a month.
At 16-bit it needs about 174 GB; at 4-bit about 43 GB. The license is listed as other, as Qwen's early models carried a custom license, so read it before commercial use. For new work, later Qwen generations in our catalog are stronger and use Apache 2.0.
Questions
Which is larger, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Qwen-72B?
Qwen-72B (72.3B parameters) is larger than Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct (70.6B parameters), by the parameter counts their publishers report.
Which is cheaper to run, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct or Qwen-72B?
At 4-bit, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct fits on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour and Qwen-72B on 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.