Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 leads with 5.1% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.9M more tokens in context window than Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507. Both models have similar pricing. Llama 4 Maverick supports multimodal inputs. Llama 4 Maverick is available on 7 providers. Overall, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 Instruct was created as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3 235B, designed to follow user instructions while leveraging the model's large-scale architecture. Built to provide advanced instruction-following with efficient mixture-of-experts design, it serves applications requiring both capability and practical deployment.
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-07-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Sambanova
Together

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507
Novita