vs
1:15
overall capability wins (0 ties across 16 scored). Llama 4 Maverick leads overall.
- Reasoning1:7
- Coding0:4
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Llama 4 Maverick leads coding (widest gap: +31.8 on LiveCode); Llama 4 Maverick ranks higher on LMArena (+116 Elo); Llama 4 Maverick offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K).
- Llama 4 Maverick leads coding (widest gap: +31.8 on LiveCode)
- Llama 4 Maverick ranks higher on LMArena (+116 Elo)
- Llama 4 Maverick offers ~7.8x larger context (1M vs 128K)
- Llama 4 Maverick allows ~8.0x more max output (33K vs 4K)
- Llama 3.1 8B is ~2.3x cheaper on a blended token basis than Llama 4 Maverick
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Llama 3.1 8B
- $0.22
- Llama 4 Maverick
- $0.48
Llama 3.1 8B is about 2.1x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Meta
Meta
Family
Llama / Muse
Llama / Muse
License
Llama 3.1 Community
Llama 4 Community
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Jul 23, 2024
Apr 5, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
2023-12
-
API / provider
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
1M
Max output
4K
33K
Parameters
8B
400B (17B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.18
$0.27
Output $/1M
$0.18
$0.85
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.18
$0.42
Speed
tok/s
160
95
TTFT (s)
0.15
0.35
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
48.3
80.5
GPQA Diamond
25.9
67.1
Humanity's Last Exam
5.3
4.9
AIME 2025
4.3
19.3
MATH-500
51.9
88.9
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
8.5
24.9
AA-LCR v1.1
18.0
50.0
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
62.1
IFBench
28.6
43.0
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
21.0
SWE-bench Pro
—
5.2
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
11.6
43.4
Terminal-Bench 2.1
1.5
7.9
Aider Polyglot
—
15.6
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
32.8
49.7
SciCode
13.2
31.7
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
11.0
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,211
1,327
| Metric | Llama 3.1 8B | Llama 4 Maverick | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Meta | Meta | — |
| Family | Llama / Muse | Llama / Muse | — |
| License | Llama 3.1 Community | Llama 4 Community | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Jul 23, 2024 | Apr 5, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2023-12 | - | — |
| API / provider | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 1M | B +872K |
| Max output | 4K | 33K | B +29K |
| Parameters | 8B | 400B (17B act.) | B +392 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.18 | $0.27 | A +$0.09 |
| Output $/1M | $0.18 | $0.85 | A +$0.67 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.18 | $0.42 | A +$0.24 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 160 | 95 | A +65 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.15 | 0.35 | A +0.20 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 48.3 | 80.5 | B +32.2 pts |
| GPQA Diamond | 25.9 | 67.1 | B +41.2 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.3 | 4.9 | A +0.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 4.3 | 19.3 | B +15.0 pts |
| MATH-500 | 51.9 | 88.9 | B +37.0 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 8.5 | 24.9 | B +16.4 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 18.0 | 50.0 | B +32.0 pts |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 62.1 | — |
| IFBench | 28.6 | 43.0 | B +14.4 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 21.0 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | 5.2 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 11.6 | 43.4 | B +31.8 pts |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 1.5 | 7.9 | B +6.4 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 32.8 | 49.7 | B +16.9 pts |
| SciCode | 13.2 | 31.7 | B +18.5 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 11.0 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,211 | 1,327 | B +116 Elo |
Llama 3.1 8B
- Context
- 128K / 4K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- $0.18 / $0.18
- Speed
- 160 tok/s · 0.15s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Llama 3.1 Community
Compact Llama 3.1 instruct model for edge, RAG, and high-throughput classification at sub-$0.20/1M rates.
Llama 4 Maverick
- Context
- 1M / 33K out
- Parameters
- 400B (17B act.)
- Price
- $0.27 / $0.85
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Llama 4 Community
Meta's open multimodal MoE flagship - 400B total / 17B active with 1M context.
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