Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking leads with 4.8% higher average benchmark score. Llama 4 Maverick offers 1.9M more tokens in context window than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. 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 Thinking was created as a reasoning-enhanced variant, designed to incorporate extended analytical capabilities into the Qwen3-Next architecture. Built to handle complex problem-solving with mixture-of-experts efficiency, it serves applications requiring both deep reasoning and computational practicality.
5 months newer

Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
2025-04-05

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

Llama 4 Maverick

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

Llama 4 Maverick

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

Llama 4 Maverick
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Groq
Lambda
Novita

Llama 4 Maverick

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking

Llama 4 Maverick

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

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking
Novita