Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Data sourced from the Interestana AI Index, kept current as developers update their models.
Model A — Meta
Llama 4 405B is Meta’s frontier-class open-weight model, distributed under the Llama Community License. Strong on multilingual tasks and competitive with proprietary models on reasoning benchmarks.
Model B — Alibaba
Qwen3 235B is Alibaba’s flagship open-weight model. The MoE architecture and Apache 2.0 license make it a popular base for fine-tuning in the open-source community.
| Property | Llama 4 405B | Qwen3 235B |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Apr 5, 2025 | Apr 29, 2025 |
| Developer | Meta | Alibaba |
| Type | multimodal | llm |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 128,000 |
| Parameters | 405B | 235B MoE (22B active) |
| Input $/M tokens | — | — |
| Output $/M tokens | — | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins).
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