Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Maverick offers 733.8K more tokens in context window than Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B. Llama 4 Maverick is $0.64 cheaper per million tokens. 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-VL-235B-A22B, released by Alibaba's Qwen team in September 2025, is a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts large language model with 235 billion total parameters and 22 billion active parameters. It features a 256K token context window (with extrapolation to 1M tokens), native support for text, image, and video input, and joint visual-textual reasoning capabilities. Qwen3-VL-235B targets complex visual reasoning, video understanding, and multimodal agentic tasks under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AI
2025-04-05
Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B
Alibaba / Qwen
2025-09-23
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama 4 Maverick
Together AI
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