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Qwen 3 Max vs Llama 4 Scout

Qwen vs Meta. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Qwen 3 Max leads on LMSYS ELO (1295 vs 1265). Llama 4 Scout is ~6.1× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Qwen

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

Meta

The 70B workhorse open-weight. Fits on a single H100, beloved by self-hosters.

Single-GPU deployableDirt cheap on aggregatorsStrong fine-tuning base

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.60$0.35

Output / 1M$6.40$0.80

Context128K128K

Max output16K8K

LicenseOpen weightsOpen weights

Released2025-11-202025-12-10

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1295.01265.0

MMLU Pro84.077.2

HumanEval87.282.4

MATH85.172.5

MMMU71.8—

IFEval85.584.1

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.0057

Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.0044

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.0017

Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.0026

Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.0037

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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