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Llama 4 Maverick

Budget

Meta's open-weight MoE — cheap, fast, and a 1M context, with the broadest tooling support.

Meta
Maker
76/100
Overall
80
Value score
$0.28
Blended /1M
1.0M
Context
Open
Weights
Pricing: $0.15 in · $0.60 out / 1M tokens · synced from OpenRouter · updated 2026-06-22

Scorecard

Output Quality7.2/10 · 69% community
Agentic Ability7.2/10 · 69% community
Speed8.6/10 · 75% community
Value for $9.2/10 · 78% community
Reliability8.8/10 · 76% community

Llama 4 Maverick is Meta's open-weight mixture-of-experts model: cheap and fast with a 1M-token context, and — as part of the Llama ecosystem — the broadest support across local runtimes and tooling. A common base for self-hosted agents.

Strengths
  • Open weights with huge ecosystem
  • 1M context
  • Cheap and fast
Trade-offs
  • Behind frontier models on quality
  • Tool use less polished

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Llama 4 Maverick FAQ

Is Llama 4 Maverick good for AI agents?
Self-hosted agents that want the Llama ecosystem. On our editorial scoring it rates 7.2/10 for agentic ability and 7.2/10 for output quality. Open weights with huge ecosystem.
How much does Llama 4 Maverick cost?
Via OpenRouter, Llama 4 Maverick is priced at $0.15 in · $0.60 out / 1M tokens — a blended rate of about $0.28 per 1M tokens for typical input-heavy agent use.
What is Llama 4 Maverick's context window?
Llama 4 Maverick has a 1.0M-token context window — large enough to hold sizeable codebases or document sets in a single run. Meta is the maker.
Is Llama 4 Maverick open source?
Yes — Llama 4 Maverick ships with open weights, so you can self-host it for privacy or run it through a hosted provider like OpenRouter. That openness is a big reason it's popular in open agent stacks.
What are the downsides of Llama 4 Maverick?
The main trade-offs: behind frontier models on quality; tool use less polished. It's strongest for self-hosted agents that want the llama ecosystem.

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