Qwen overtakes Llama in self-hosted use

The big takeaway is simple: production users are voting with latency, cost, and fine-tuning flexibility, and Qwen is winning that vote.

• –This is a stronger signal than social-media hype because it reflects actual workloads, not launch-week attention.
• –Llama 4’s near-zero adoption on Runpod suggests narrative leadership does not guarantee deployment leadership.
• –For teams shipping self-hosted stacks, Qwen looks like the pragmatic default when performance-per-dollar matters most.
• –The result also reinforces how open-weight ecosystems are fragmenting around real operator needs, not brand gravity.
• –Caveat: this is Runpod-specific data, but that still makes it highly relevant because it captures where inference is really running.