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Llama 4 Maverick
Open natively-multimodal MoE flagship — a strong, cheap general workhorse.
Field notes
- Context window
- 1.0Mtokens
- Max output
- 16Ktokens
- Input price
- $0.17/ 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0.60/ 1M tokens
- Modalities
- Text, Image
- Knowledge cutoff
- Aug 2024
- Released
- Apr 2025
- Parameters
- 400B
- License
- Llama 4 Community License
- Approx. speed
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Overview
What this model is
Llama 4 Maverick is Meta's open-weight flagship, a 400B-total / 17B-active mixture-of-experts model with native text+image understanding and a 1M-token context. It is an excellent, cheap, self-hostable general assistant and a favorite base for fine-tuning, but it trails the closed frontier on long-horizon agentic coding. Best treated as a high-value open workhorse rather than an autonomous coding agent.
Strengths
- Open weights, self-hostable and fine-tune-friendly
- Native multimodal (text + image) at low cost
- Very large 1M-token context
- Strong multilingual coverage
Trade-offs
- Unreliable on long autonomous agentic coding runs
- Behind the frontier on hard reasoning/coding
- Community license restricts 700M+ MAU use
- Vision weaker than Gemini/GPT flagships
Best for
- Self-hosted general assistants
- Fine-tuning and domain adaptation
- High-volume multilingual chat
- Cost-sensitive multimodal apps
Not ideal for
- Long autonomous coding agents
- Frontier math/reasoning tasks
Capabilities
Capability profile
Normalized 0–100 scores, comparable across the whole catalog.
- Reasoning
- 68
- Coding
- 62
- Math
- 64
- Writing
- 72
- Knowledge
- 78
- Speed
- 82
- Agentic
- 58
- Vision
- 72
- Multilingual
- 80
- Long Context
- 82
Benchmarks
How it scores
Public benchmark results, with independent third-party results where available. Bars normalize percentages to 100 and Elo ratings to a 1500 ceiling.
Independent index
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Composite of ~9–10 independent evals · Artificial Analysis
14/ 100
BenchmarkResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindependent
GeneralArtificial Analysis
14%
τ-benchindependent
Agenticτ-bench
68.5%
MATH
MathVendor-reported
89.4%
MMLU-Pro
KnowledgeVendor-reported
80.5%
GPQA Diamondindependent
ReasoningIndependent aggregators
69.8%
MMMU
VisionVendor-reported
73.4%
LiveCodeBenchindependent
CodingLiveCodeBench
43.4%
LMArena Eloindependent
GeneralLMArena
1417Elo