Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.7M more tokens in context window than Qwen3 235B A22B. Qwen3 235B A22B is $0.57 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick supports multimodal inputs. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Meta
Llama 4 Maverick was developed as a variant in Meta's fourth-generation language model family, designed to explore specialized capabilities and training approaches. Built to push the boundaries of open-source model development, it represents experimentation with advanced techniques in the Llama lineage.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
24 days newer

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3 235B A22B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3 235B A22B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3 235B A22B

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3 235B A22B
Sambanova
Together

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
Together