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Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct from Llama and Qwen3.8 Max from Qwen on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct
Llama · → text

Input$0.22 /M
Output$0.66 /M
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Qwen3.8 Max
Qwen · text, image, video → text

Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba Cloud Tongyi Qianwen's next-generation flagship large language model, featuring a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 2.4 trillion parameters. It achieves another breakthrough in encoding depth, enabling it to handle more complex engineering-grade projects and long-term autonomous development; collaborative agent capabilities are significantly enhanced, performing more confidently in multi-tool orchestration and end-to-end delivery; visual understanding is comprehensively improved, with more sensitive and accurate chart reasoning, document parsing, and multimodal perception. Continuing the 1-million-context window, reasoning modes, and a complete tool ecosystem, it continues to evolve at a higher level of intelligence.

Input$1.69 /M
Output$5.07 /M
Cache read$0.169 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.22
$1.69
Output /M
$0.66
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
0
1,000,000
Max output
0
131,072
Time to First Token
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12.5 s
Throughput
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28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong contextthinking
API Formats
Released
April 5, 2025
August 3, 2026

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
groq-llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instructqwen3.8-max
1280134014001460
Overall
13271482
Coding
13731373
Math
13181318
Hard prompts
13391339
Instruction following
13141314
Multi-turn
13241324
Creative writing
13071307
Longer query
13341334
Chinese
13301330
English
13401340
Vision
groq-llama-4-maverick-17b-128e-instructqwen3.8-max
1120118012401300
Overall
11471301
OCR
11521152
Diagram
11501150
Homework
11621162

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct
$23.10 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct, Qwen3.8 Max?

Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct: $0.66/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Can I call Groq Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128e Instruct and Qwen3.8 Max with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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