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Llama 4 Maverick

by Metaopen weights
Llama 4 family
Parameters
400B
Context window
1M tokens
Released
2025-04-05
Input price / 1M tok
$0.50
Output price / 1M tok
$1.50
Modality
multimodal, vision, tools

About Llama 4 Maverick

Meta's mid-tier Llama 4 — MoE architecture with 17B active parameters out of 400B total. Native vision, 1M context. Ships with open weights and outperforms Llama 3.1 70B at similar per-token cost.

Strengths

  • Open weights
  • 1M context
  • Native vision
  • MoE efficiency

Weaknesses

  • Requires 8×H100+ to self-host
  • Vision quality trails Gemini/GPT-5
  • Newer, so fine-tune ecosystem smaller

Best for

Long-context RAGVision Q&ASelf-hosted inference
Vendor page →HuggingFace →