Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads with 1.6% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Maverick, released by Meta on April 5, 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 400 billion total parameters and 17 billion active parameters per inference. It features a 1M token context window and supports text and image input, enabling strong performance on both language and vision tasks. Maverick targets open-source deployments requiring large-scale multimodal reasoning, released under Meta's custom license.
Alibaba / Qwen
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion-parameter open-weight language model from Alibaba's Qwen team, released in September 2024 as part of the Qwen2.5 series trained on 18 trillion tokens with improved code, math, and multilingual coverage. The model delivers significantly stronger instruction-following, structured output generation, and long-context handling compared to its predecessor, supporting 128K context windows in a compact form factor. It became widely adopted as a foundation for fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, and on-device deployment due to its balance of capability and efficiency.
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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
Alibaba / Qwen
2024-09-19

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AI
2025-04-05
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama 4 Maverick
Together AI
Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct
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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct