Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF vs Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF | Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | — | 401.6 B |
| Architecture | — | Llama4ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | — | 128,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 12 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,339,001 | 9,163 |
| Downloads all time | 10.0 M | 749 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | GGUF | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-28 | 2025-04-01 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.19 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.65 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.84 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.05 |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | 9.3 |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | 16.3 |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | 0.6 |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 16,384 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 3 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct
$0.84
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
1.6 M9 K
Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF
Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF · Q4_0
6.4 GB / 24 GB
Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct · fp16
944.2 GB / 24 GB