Question 1

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Qwen 2.5 Max has cheaper input tokens ($0.16/M), while Llama 4 Maverick has cheaper output tokens ($0.60/M). The best value depends on your input-to-output ratio.

Question 2

Which is faster, Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Llama 4 Maverick is faster at 90 tokens/sec with a TTFT of 250ms, compared to Qwen 2.5 Max at 80 tokens/sec and 240ms TTFT.

Question 3

Which has a bigger context window, Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Llama 4 Maverick has a 1049K token context window, which is larger Qwen 2.5 Max's 128K context window.

Question 4

Which is better for coding, Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen 2.5 Max?

Accepted Answer

Llama 4 Maverick has a higher coding ELO of 1280 compared to Qwen 2.5 Max's 1250, making it the stronger choice for code generation and programming tasks.

Feature	Llama 4 Maverick	Qwen 2.5 Max
Provider	Meta	Alibaba
Input Price / 1M tokens	$0.200	$0.160
Output Price / 1M tokens	$0.600	$0.640
Context Window	1.048576M	128K
Max Output Tokens	32,768	8,192
Arena ELO	1,290	1,260
Coding ELO	1,280	1,250
TTFT (ms)	250	240
Tokens/sec	90	80
Multimodal	Yes	No
JSON Mode	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Vision	Yes	No

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