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Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

List-price comparison ·Llama 4 Maverick details ·Qwen2.5 72B Instruct details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 4 Maverick is the cheapest — 5% less than the priciest here ($56.00/mo vs $59.20/mo).

 Llama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 72B Instruct
Input / 1M tokens$0.200$0.360
Output / 1M tokens$0.800$0.400
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0006$0.0006
Context window1,048,576 tokens32,768 tokens
Max output16,384 tokens16,384 tokens
Quality score74/10085/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderMetaQwen

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 72B Instruct
1,000$0.56$0.592
10,000$5.60$5.92
100,000$56.00$59.20
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Llama 4 Maverick

Strong multi-modal (text + image) open-weight model with a 1M-token context window — good for self-hosted or fine-tuned deployments.

Smaller completion-token cap (16K) than newer commercial models limits very long single-turn outputs — chunk long generations.

Qwen2.5 72B Instruct

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