Qwen vs Llama
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Qwen
Alibaba Cloud's LLM family, open weights through to the Qwen3.8-Max fl...
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Llama
Meta's downloadable LLM family, last updated with Llama 4 in April 202...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open weights to self-host; free Qwen Chat; 1M free tokens per model for 90 days in Model Studio's Singapore region | Free weight downloads (Llama 2, 3.x and 4) under Meta's Llama community licences, after accepting the licence |
| Paid from | From $0.03 per million input tokens (qwen3.7-flash, prompts up to 32K, Singapore region) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Consumer app ~203M MAU (April 2026), #3 globally | 10m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Alibaba Cloud | Meta Platforms |
| Verdict | Qwen is the most practical open-weight family to build on in 2026: Apache 2.0 models from under a billion to hundreds of billions of parameters, and now even the Max-tier flagship available to download. Hosted pricing in... |
Llama 2 and 3 made Meta's family the default starting point for self-hosted and fine-tuned models, and the weights from Llama 2 through Llama 4 remain free to download from Hugging Face and Kaggle. Llama 4 Scout and Mave... |
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