Llama 4 Maverick
MetaOpen weightsMeta's open non-reasoning model: no effort dial at all. Cheap, fast, fine for everyday text — a baseline for what 'no thinking' buys you.
Index @ Standard
52.4
Context
1M
$/M in · out
$0.27 · $0.85
Median speed
160 tok/s
Released
Apr 5, 2025
02·Which effort for which task
The sweet spot, per task
Cheapest effort tier that keeps ≥96% of this model's peak quality on the benchmarks behind each task type. Below the floor number, quality is not okay — it just fails quietly.
Everyday writing & Q&A
StandardChat, drafting, summaries, general questions.
Code assist
StandardAutocomplete, single functions, small fixes.
Coding agents
StandardReal repos, multi-file changes, end-to-end tickets.
Math & quantitative
StandardDerivations, statistics, financial models.
Hard research problems
StandardNovel, frontier, genuinely difficult questions.
Agents & tool use
StandardLong workflows with tools, policies, and state.
03·The effort ladder
Quality and cost, tier by tier
Intelligence Index by effort
Cost per typical task by effort
04·Benchmark detail
Scores at Standard
| Benchmark | Standard | Peak | What it predicts |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 80.0 | 80.0 | Everyday Q&A · Drafting emails & docs · Summarizing articles |
| GPQA Diamond | 70.0 | 70.0 | Technical analysis · Root-cause debugging · Scientific writing |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 9.0 | 9.0 | Novel research questions · Frontier problem solving |
| AIME 2025 | 40.0 | 40.0 | Financial modeling · Statistics · Algorithm design |
| SWE-bench Verified | 44.0 | 44.0 | Coding agents · Bug fixing in real repos · Multi-file refactors |
| LiveCodeBench | 48.0 | 48.0 | Writing functions from scratch · Algorithms · Code autocomplete |
| τ²-bench | 52.0 | 52.0 | Tool-using agents · Customer-facing automation · Multi-step workflows |
| IFEval | 82.0 | 82.0 | Structured output (JSON) · Templated generation · Batch pipelines |
05·Host variants
Same weights, different model
Hosts serve Llama 4 Maverick at different quantizations and stacks. Index below is measured per host at Standard effort — the headline number only applies to the reference serving.
| Host | Quant | Index | Δ vs reference | $/M in · out | tok/s | TTFT | Uptime | Gateway id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Together AIreference | fp8 | 52.4 | — | $0.27 · $0.85 | 160 | 0.30s | 99.2% | llama-4-maverick |
| Groq | int8 | 50.8 | -1.6 | $0.20 · $0.60 | 550 | 0.20s | 98.9% | llama-4-maverick@groq |
| DeepInfra | fp8 | 51.9 | -0.5 | $0.17 · $0.60 | 140 | 0.45s | 98.5% | llama-4-maverick@deepinfra |
06·Drift
Is it still the same model this week?
Weekly Intelligence Index · dashed rules mark serving-change events
No serving-change events detected for Llama 4 Maverick in the tracked window.
07·Call it
One key, this model, your effort
The gateway speaks the OpenAI Chat Completions dialect. Pick a host with llama-4-maverick@host syntax, set reasoning_effort, and the sweet spot above becomes one line of config. Full docs →
curl https://models.fyi/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MFYI_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "llama-4-maverick",
"reasoning_effort": "standard",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
}'
# local dev: replace https://models.fyi with http://localhost:3000