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Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
List-price comparison · Llama 4 Maverick details · Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 4 Maverick costs 39% less — $42.00/mo vs $68.64/mo.
| Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.150 | $0.117 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.600 | $1.36 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0004 | $0.0007 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 256k tokens |
| Max output | 16,384 tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | Meta | Qwen |
Projected monthly cost
1,000 requests / month$0.42 vs $0.686410,000 requests / month$4.20 vs $6.86100,000 requests / month$42.00 vs $68.64
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
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.
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
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