Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct leads with 1.6% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.9M more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct. Llama 4 Maverick is $0.88 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-Next 80B Instruct was developed as the instruction-tuned version of Qwen3-Next 80B, designed to combine large-scale mixture-of-experts architecture with reliable instruction-following. Built to demonstrate efficient deployment of capable models, it balances advanced performance with practical computational efficiency.
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-09-10
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Available providers and their performance metrics

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Sambanova
Together

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct
Novita