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Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen3.8 Max

Compare Llama 4 Maverick 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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Llama 4 Maverick
Llama · text, image → text

Llama 4 Maverick is a high-capacity Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Meta, featuring 400B total parameters and 128 experts, while activating an efficient 17B parameters per inference. Engineered for peak performance, it excels at advanced multimodal tasks. Maverick natively supports text and image input, producing multilingual text and code. With a 1-million-token context window and instruction tuning, it is optimized for complex image reasoning and general-purpose assistant-like interactions. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, Maverick is ideal for research and commercial applications demanding state-of-the-art multimodal understanding and high throughput.

Input$0.2 /M
Output$0.2 /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.

Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen3.8 Max
Input /M
$0.2
$1.69
Output /M
$0.2
$5.07
Cache read /M
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$0.169
Context length
1,048,576
1,000,000
Max output
32,000
131,072
Time to First Token
0.2 s
12.5 s
Throughput
97.8 tok/s
28.4 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
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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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

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

Text
llama-4-maverickqwen3.8-max
1280134014001460
Overall
13271482
Coding
13731373
Math
13191319
Hard prompts
13381338
Instruction following
13141314
Multi-turn
13241324
Creative writing
13071307
Longer query
13341334
Chinese
13301330
English
13401340
Vision
llama-4-maverickqwen3.8-max
1120118012401300
Overall
11471301
OCR
11521152
Diagram
11511151
Homework
11611161

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.

Llama 4 Maverick
$15.00 /mo
Qwen3.8 Max
$177 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen3.8 Max?

Llama 4 Maverick: $0.2/M output tokens; Qwen3.8 Max: $5.07/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

Llama 4 Maverick: 0.2s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Llama 4 Maverick accepts 1,048,576 and Qwen3.8 Max accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 32,000 tokens on Llama 4 Maverick and 131,072 tokens on Qwen3.8 Max.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Llama 4 Maverick at 97.8 tok/s and Qwen3.8 Max at 28.4 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Llama 4 Maverick accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Qwen3.8 Max accepts text, image and video input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, long context and thinking.

Can I call Llama 4 Maverick 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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