Llama 3.1 405B Instruct vs Qwen 2.5 Max

Capability, benchmark, and verified hosting price comparison.

Quick verdict

Cheapest hosting: Qwen 2.5 Max— $2.800 vs $3.000 / 1M blended tokens
Context window: Llama 3.1 405B Instruct— 131,072 tokens vs 32,768
Weights available: Llama 3.1 405B Instruct— open-weight (Llama 3.1 Community License) vs closed

Derived from public benchmarks and verified hosting prices. Benchmark wins count only where both models have a score; direction respects each benchmark’s higher-is-better flag.

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct

by Meta · Llama 3.1

Context: 131,072 tokens
Open weight: Yes
License: Llama 3.1 Community License
Params: 405.0B
Modalities: text

Qwen 2.5 Max

by Alibaba Cloud · Qwen2.5

Context: 32,768 tokens
Open weight: No
Modalities: text

Cheapest verified hosting

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct cheapest

Fireworks.ai

$3.000/ 1M tokens (blended)

Input: $3.000
Output: $3.000
Context: 131,072 tok

Qwen 2.5 Max cheapest

Alibaba Cloud DashScope

$2.800/ 1M tokens (blended)

Input: $1.600
Output: $6.400
Context: 32,768 tok