Noometry

Model comparison

Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 29.0 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $1.13 for Qwen3.6 Flash.
  • Qwen3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index30.938.8
Released2025-04-052026-04-27
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K1M
Max output4K66K
Input $ / M tokens$0.19$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$0.65$1.13
Results tracked5413

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
ALE-Bench172.97326.4
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21%—
Aider Polyglot15.6%—
SciCode33.1%—
WeirdML24.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct49.7%—
LMArena Coding1302—
BigCodeBench Complete61.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard37.3%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
SimpleBench27.7%35.2%
DTBench61.9%77.1%
LMCA15.9%31%
Epoch Capabilities Index132.2143.26
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark55.9%—
NYT Connections (extended)8%—
ARC-AGI-14.4%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
EnigmaEval0.6%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1281—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
ForecastBench57.5—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202520.6%84.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.7%10.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
Omni-MATH42.2%—
LMArena Math1299—
MATH Level 573%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond67%83.3%
Humanity's Last Exam5.7%—
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
MMLU-Pro81%—
Confabulations22.6%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate8.2%—
GPQA (HELM)65%—
LMArena Expert1259—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision1142—
GeoBench52%—
SpatialViz-Bench31.8%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1269—
LMArena Chinese1277—
LMArena French1259—
LMArena German1291—
LMArena Japanese1207—
LMArena Korean1203—
LMArena Russian1286—
LMArena Spanish1293—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
IFEval90.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1267—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
Fiction.LiveBench46.2%—
LMArena Longer Query1280—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

BenchmarkLlama 4 MaverickQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1287—
LMArena Creative Writing1267—
Short-Story Creative Writing62%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing860—
WildBench80%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1289—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Qwen3.6 Flash?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 Flash lists at $0.19 and $1.13.

Which has the bigger context window?

Qwen3.6 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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