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Llama 4 Maverick vs Qwen3.8 Flash

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Llama 4 Maverick costs 1.3× as much as Qwen3.8 Flash: $0.636 against $0.488 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Llama 4 MaverickQwen3.8 Flash
Input, per 1M tokens$0.188$0.15
Output, per 1M tokens$0.652$0.47
Context window1.05M1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.119$0.0947
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$0.636$0.488
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$1.83$1.44
Confidence signalyesyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400294316

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Qwen3.8 Flash answers your requests as well as Llama 4 Maverick, moving that traffic saves 23% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Qwen3.8 Flash exposes a confidence signal, so Gimbix can let it answer first and hand unsure cases to Llama 4 Maverick.

Llama 4 Maverick profile · Qwen3.8 Flash profile · Measure it on your traffic