# Llama 4 Maverick vs QwQ-32B

> QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-4-maverick-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 28

## Summary

- They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 0 categories and QwQ-32B in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in long context, where QwQ-32B leads 49.0 to 31.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 30.6 | 39.4 |
| Rank | 276 | 153 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.19 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.65 | — |
| Weights | Open | Open |

## Coding

- Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)
- QwQ-32B: 34.9 (#220)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | 20.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49.7% | 44.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1302 | 1333 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.4% | 54.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| SciCode | 33.1% | — |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| ALE-Bench | 172.97 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |

## Reasoning

- Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)
- QwQ-32B: 22.9 (#171)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1326 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | 137.6 |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | 58.3 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)
- QwQ-32B: 36.2 (#123)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1299 | 1359 |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#150)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 67% | 65.3% |
| Confabulations | 22.6% | 15.6% |
| LMArena Expert | 1259 | 1323 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1141 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)
- QwQ-32B: 45.0 (#171)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1269 | 1306 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1258 | 1337 |
| LMArena German | 1291 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | 1263 |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | 1278 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1293 | 1353 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)
- QwQ-32B: 72.8 (#131)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |

## Long Context

- Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | 83.3% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)
- QwQ-32B: 50.9 (#175)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1266 | 1288 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | 1314 |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 4 Maverick better than QwQ-32B?

QwQ-32B is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.4 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Llama 4 Maverick or QwQ-32B better for coding?

QwQ-32B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.9 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and QwQ-32B share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.