Llama vs Qwen
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Llama
Meta's open-weight LLM family — Llama 4 landed, Behemoth didn't
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Qwen
Alibaba's LLM family: open Qwen3 weights plus closed Qwen3.7-Max
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free model weights for download and local use | Open-weight Qwen3 models free to download and self-host |
| Paid from | — | Qwen3 Max preview API priced per-token on Alibaba Cloud |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 10m+ downloads | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Meta Platforms | Alibaba Group |
| Verdict | Llama is still the backbone of the open-weight LLM ecosystem — Llama 2 and 3 built it, and Llama 4 (Scout and Maverick, shipped April 2025) kept it going, with a huge footprint on Hugging Face, Ollama, Together AI and Fi... |
Qwen is Alibaba's flagship LLM family and a cornerstone of the open-weight ecosystem — the Qwen3 line ships freely on Hugging Face from small dense models up to large MoE sizes. Capability is frontier-adjacent on coding,... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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