Model comparison
Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen1.5 4b Chat
Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
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Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen1.5 4b Chat in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in instruction following, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 71.7 to 49.0.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 28.8 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.19 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Qwen1.5 4b Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 29.1 (#308)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1302 | 999 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | — |
| SciCode | 33.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 172.97 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Qwen1.5 4b Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 18.5 (#279)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 976 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Qwen1.5 4b Chat leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.4 (#234)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1299 | 1026 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 26.7 (#255)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1259 | 980 |
| GPQA Diamond | 67% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |
Multilingual Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 24.1 (#290)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1269 | 979 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1024 |
| LMArena German | 1291 | 902 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 952 |
| LMArena French | 1259 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1293 | — |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 49.0 (#300)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | 978 |
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |
Long Context Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 30.1 (#290)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | 988 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Qwen1.5 4b Chat: 23.8 (#309)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Qwen1.5 4b Chat |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 997 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1267 | 969 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | 977 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Qwen1.5 4b Chat?
Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 28.8 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen1.5 4b Chat better for coding?
Qwen1.5 4b Chat scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.1 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen1.5 4b Chat share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5 4b Chat has 13.