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Qwen 3 235B-A22B vs Llama 4 Maverick 400B

Side-by-side specs, benchmarks, and a verdict by use case.

Spec Qwen 3 235B-A22B Llama 4 Maverick 400B
Parameters235B400B
AuthorAlibabaMeta
LicenseApache 2.0Llama 4 Community
Context window0k0k
VRAM at Q4142 GB240 GB
VRAM at Q5170 GB285 GB
VRAM at Q8250 GB425 GB
VRAM at FP16470 GB800 GB
Use caseschat, general, reasoning, multilingual, moechat, general, vision, moe, multilingual

Verdict

Llama 4 Maverick 400B is significantly larger (400B vs 235B), so expect higher quality but heavier VRAM and slower throughput.

For unambiguous commercial use, Qwen 3 235B-A22B has the safer license (Apache 2.0) compared to Llama 4 Community.

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