Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Maverick offers 733.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Max. Llama 4 Maverick is $1.64 cheaper per million tokens. 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-Max, released by Alibaba in September 2025 as an API preview, is a large language model exceeding one trillion parameters built for complex reasoning and long-context tasks. It features a 262K token context window, hybrid thinking modes that allow switching between direct generation and extended chain-of-thought, and is available as a proprietary cloud API via Alibaba Cloud and Qwen Chat. Qwen3-Max targets demanding reasoning, multilingual analysis, and applications requiring frontier-level performance from the Qwen3 generation.
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AI
2025-04-05
Qwen3-Max
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-05
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen3-Max
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama 4 Maverick
Together AI
Qwen3-Max
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen3-Max
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen3-Max
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