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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Qwen3.5-27B

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time
  • Better at math

Qwen3.5-27B wins:

  • Larger context window
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
Price Advantage
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Qwen3.5-27B
Context Window
Qwen3.5-27B
Speed
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct

Pricing Comparison

Price Comparison

MetricLlama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3.5-27BWinner
Input (per 1M tokens)$0.10$0.20 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Output (per 1M tokens)$0.32$1.56 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Cache Read (per 1M)$0.13$0.27 Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Using a 3:1 input/output ratio, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is 71% cheaper overall.

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Providers

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Qwen3.5-27B Providers

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Benchmark Comparison

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Benchmarks Compared
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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Wins
3
Qwen3.5-27B Wins

Benchmark Scores

BenchmarkLlama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3.5-27BWinner
Intelligence Index
Overall intelligence score
14.537.2
Coding Index
Code generation & understanding
10.733.4
Math Index
Mathematical reasoning
7.7--
MMLU Pro
Academic knowledge
71.3--
GPQA
Graduate-level science
49.884.2
LiveCodeBench
Competitive programming
28.8--
Aider
Real-world code editing
59.4--
AIME
Competition math
30.0--
Qwen3.5-27B significantly outperforms in coding benchmarks.

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Context & Performance

Context Window

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
131,072
tokens
Qwen3.5-27B
262,144
tokens
Qwen3.5-27B has a 50% larger context window.

Speed Performance

MetricLlama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3.5-27BWinner
Tokens/second99.5 tok/s92.1 tok/s
Time to First Token0.54s1.32s

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureLlama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3.5-27B
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyLlama 3.3 70B InstructQwen3.5-27B
LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source
AuthorMeta-llamaQwen
ReleasedDec 2024Feb 2026

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Qwen3.5-27B Modalities

Input
textimagevideo
Output
text

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Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.10/M tokens. Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.32/M tokens.
Qwen3.5-27B scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 33.4, compared to Llama 3.3 70B Instruct's score of 10.7.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct has a 131,072 token context window, while Qwen3.5-27B has a 262,144 token context window.
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct does not support vision. Qwen3.5-27B supports vision.