Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
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
Qwen3 Coder Next is a coding-specialized open-weight model from Alibaba's Qwen3 family, built on the Qwen3-Next architecture with hybrid attention and Mixture-of-Experts design optimized for local development and agentic coding workflows. It targets on-device and self-hosted deployments requiring a capable coding agent that can operate within consumer hardware constraints.
10 months newer

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AI
2025-04-05
Qwen3 Coder Next
Alibaba / Qwen
2026-02-04
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama 4 Maverick
Together AI
Qwen3 Coder Next
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen3 Coder Next
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen3 Coder Next