Llama 4 Maverick
Meta · released 5 Apr 2025 · open weights
- Cheapest frontier model to run
- Open weights — self-hostable
Open-weights MoE; cheapest frontier-ish option, huge ecosystem + fine-tunability.
Context window
1M
1,000,000 tokens
Input price
$0.22
per 1M tokens
Output price
$0.85
per 1M tokens
Blended
$0.38
3:1 in:out mix
Weights
Open
self-hostable
Released
5 Apr 2025
Meta
Long-context / tier pricing — No first-party API; representative hosted rate. Listed prices are the base rate for prompts up to ~200K tokens.
Open-weights API prices are representative third-party-hosted rates; self-hosting costs only your own hardware.
Where it ranks
Of 19 models tracked.
Cost to run
#1
of 19
Input price
#2
of 19
Context window
#5(tied)
of 19
Compare with
The nearest models by blended cost to run.
Put it to work
Specs from BitByteCore's hand-verified Frontier Ledger (v2026-07-20), this row verified 20 Jul 2026 against Meta's official pricing ↗. Model pricing moves fast — confirm with Meta before you rely on a figure.