Llama 3.3 70B vs Qwen3 Max

List-price comparison · Llama 3.3 70B details · Qwen3 Max details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 3.3 70B costs 90% less — $24.80/mo vs $249.60/mo.

	Llama 3.3 70B	Qwen3 Max
Input / 1M tokens	$0.100	$0.780
Output / 1M tokens	$0.320	$3.90
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)	$0.0002	$0.0025
Context window	131,072 tokens	262,144 tokens
Max output	16,384 tokens	32,768 tokens
Tier	Flash	Balanced
Provider	Meta	Qwen

Projected monthly cost

1,000 requests / month$0.248 vs $2.50 10,000 requests / month$2.48 vs $24.96 100,000 requests / month$24.80 vs $249.60

Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.

Llama 3.3 70B

Mature, well-supported open-weight model for general chat and lightweight agents — wide availability across inference providers keeps pricing competitive.

Falls behind newer flagship models on complex reasoning and coding — best suited to well-scoped, repetitive tasks.

Qwen3 Max

Strong multilingual reasoning (especially Chinese/English) and competitive coding benchmarks at open-weight pricing.

Cache-write pricing is unusually high relative to input cost — workloads that rely heavily on prompt caching should benchmark actual savings.

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.