Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3-Max
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Meta · Apr 2025
A 10M-token context window — still the largest ever shipped — in a 109B MoE that fits on a single H100.
Alibaba (Qwen) · Sep 2025
Alibaba's trillion-parameter API flagship — frontier-adjacent quality with strong agentic tool use at mid-tier prices.
The verdict
Qwen3-Max wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Scout. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Scout works out roughly 8.5x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Scout also takes 10M of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Max. And Llama 4 Scout is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Benchmark head-to-head 0–2
Specs & pricing
| Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3-Max | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 80.5 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.18 | $1.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.59 | $6 |
| Context window | 10M | 262K |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Open weights | yes (Llama 4 Community License) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text |
| Knowledge cutoff | Aug 2024 | Jun 2025 |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Sep 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $2.68 | $21.00 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3-Max?
- Qwen3-Max wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Scout. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Scout works out roughly 8.5x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Scout also takes 10M of context versus 262K for Qwen3-Max. And Llama 4 Scout is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3-Max?
- Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18/$0.59 per million input/output tokens, while Qwen3-Max costs $1.2/$6. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $2.68 versus $21.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3-Max?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.