Model comparison

Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen2.5 7B Instruct

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 12 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct Alibaba (Qwen)

28.6

Rank #314 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct in 3 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 33.3 to 17.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 67% for Llama 4 Maverick and 35.5% for Qwen2.5 7B Instruct.
  • Both cost about the same: $0.19 input and $0.65 output per million tokens.
  • Qwen2.5 7B Instruct accepts more context: 131K tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct specifications
Llama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.628.6
Released2025-04-052024-09
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K131K
Max output4K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.19$0.17
Output $ / M tokens$0.65$0.70
Results tracked5415

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Category by category

Coding Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 35.9 (#204)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
BigCodeBench Instruct49.7%37.6%
BigCodeBench Complete61.4%46.1%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21%—
Aider Polyglot15.6%—
SciCode33.1%—
WeirdML24.5%—
LMArena Coding1302—
ALE-Bench172.97—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 23.5 (#117)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.3%—
BALROG—7.8%

Reasoning Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 14.3 (#317)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
DTBench61.9%47.7%
LMCA15.9%6.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2118.44
ARC-AGI-20%—
SimpleBench27.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)8%—
ARC-AGI-14.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
EnigmaEval0.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
ForecastBench57.5—

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 11.8 (#300)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202520.6%2.5%
Omni-MATH42.2%29.4%
LMArena Math1299—
MATH Level 573%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 17.0 (#281)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
GPQA Diamond67%35.5%
MMLU-Pro81%53.9%
GPQA (HELM)65%34.1%
Humanity's Last Exam5.7%—
Confabulations22.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
LMArena Expert1259—
MMLU—72.9%

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Vision1141—
GeoBench52%—
SpatialViz-Bench31.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
LMArena Non-English1269—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1258—
LMArena German1291—
LMArena Japanese1207—
LMArena Korean1203—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1293—

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 63.4 (#226)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
IFEval90.8%74.1%
LMArena Instruction Following1267—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1280—

Writing & Preference Qwen2.5 7B Instruct leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247), Qwen2.5 7B Instruct: 48.8 (#194)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen2.5 7B Instruct
WildBench80%73.1%
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1266—
Short-Story Creative Writing62%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing860—
LMArena Multi-Turn1289—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.6 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Qwen2.5 7B Instruct lists at $0.17 and $0.70.

Is Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen2.5 7B Instruct better for coding?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.9 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen2.5 7B Instruct does, with 131K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen2.5 7B Instruct has 15.

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