Llama 4 Maverick vs QwQ 32B
Compare Llama 4 Maverick by Meta AI against QwQ 32B by Qwen, in 3 community votes, qwq 32b wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 40K, tested across 15 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Llama 4 Maverick or QwQ 32B?
QwQ 32B is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 3 blind community votes on Rival. Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.5/M input tokens vs $0.5/M for QwQ 32B. Context windows: 1000K vs 40K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Llama 4 Maverick and QwQ 32B
Llama 4 Maverick is made by meta while QwQ 32B is from qwen. Llama 4 Maverick has a 1000K token context window compared to QwQ 32B's 40K. On pricing, Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.5/M input tokens vs $0.5/M for QwQ 32B. In community voting, In 3 community votes, QwQ 32B wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 3 community votes, QwQ 32B wins 100% of head-to-head duels. QwQ 32B leads in Web Design. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 3+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
QwQ 32B is cheaper on both — 3.0× input, 1.7× output
Pick QwQ 32B. In 3 blind votes, QwQ 32B wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
QwQ 32B particularly excels in Web Design.
Style Comparison
Llama 4 Maverick uses 73.9x more headings
