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Florence-2 vs Qwen3.5 122B A10B

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Florence-2 vs Qwen3.5 122B A10B Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026

PropertyFlorence-2Qwen3.5 122B A10B
OrganizationMicrosoftQwen
Categoryopenopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJun 2025Feb 2026
Context Window256K
Parameters230M122B
LicenseMITApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.260
Output $/1M$2.08
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Instance Segmentation
Open Vocabulary Object Detection
Phrase Grounding
Region Proposal
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Zero-shot Detection

Florence-2 vs Qwen3.5 122B A10B: Overview

Florence-2

Florence-2, introduced by Microsoft Research at CVPR 2024, is an open-source vision-language foundation model designed to unify diverse computer vision tasks within a single sequence-to-sequence framework. Unlike traditional models that specialize in specific tasks, Florence-2 accepts both images and text prompts and outputs text for tasks such as captioning, object detection, segmentation, OCR, and region-based grounding. It comes in two sizes—Florence-2-base (~230M parameters) and Florence-2-large (~770M parameters)—and is trained on FLD-5B, a large dataset of ~126M images with ~5.4B annotations.

The model demonstrates strong zero-shot and fine-tuned performance, often rivaling larger vision-language systems while remaining lightweight and efficient. Released under the MIT license, all weights are publicly available, making it accessible for fine-tuning and deployment in applications like VQA, content tagging, accessibility, and research. Florence-2’s compact design, versatility, and openness position it as a practical alternative to larger proprietary multimodal models.

Qwen3.5 122B A10B

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B is a high-capacity multimodal Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team as part of the Qwen3.5 model family. The architecture contains 122 billion total parameters while activating roughly 10 billion per token through sparse expert routing, allowing the model to balance large-scale reasoning ability with relatively efficient inference compared to dense models of similar size.

The model is designed to process both text and visual inputs within a unified multimodal framework, enabling tasks that require reasoning across images, documents, charts, and natural language. This makes it suitable for applications such as document understanding, diagram interpretation, and complex visual question answering.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B supports a native context window of approximately 256,000 tokens, which can be extended further through techniques such as YaRN scaling to support very long-context workloads. Released under the Apache 2.0 license, it builds on earlier Qwen multimodal systems and provides developers with an open-weight model capable of handling demanding multimodal reasoning and analysis tasks.