Llama 4 Maverick
Meta's open-weight mixture-of-experts flagship, pairing native multimodality with a very low served price across third-party inference providers.
At a glance
Released
Feb 10, 2026
Provider
Meta
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
16,000 tokens
Modalities
Text + image → text
Knowledge cutoff
August 2025
API model ID
llama-4-maverickLicense
Open weights (Llama 4 Community License)
Pricing
Standard
Input$0.20 / 1M
Output$0.80 / 1M
* Rates are from a third-party aggregator — verify before relying on them. A typical 1,500-token prompt with a 650-token answer costs ≈ $0.0008 on the standard tier. Run your own prompt through the calculator →
What's new vs the previous model
Compared withLlama 3.3 70B (December 2024)
- Mixture-of-experts design lifts quality while keeping inference cheap
- Native image understanding and much longer context
- Larger total parameter footprint makes self-hosting heavier
Best use cases
Self-hosted assistants
Runs on your own infrastructure for data-sensitive chat and RAG.
Fine-tuning base
Serves as an open foundation for domain-specific adaptation.
Multimodal apps
Handles mixed text-and-image inputs without a proprietary API.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Open weights
- Cheap to serve
- Strong multimodal and long context
Limitations
- Large footprint to host well
- Community License is not fully unrestricted
How to test it
- No-code: open meta.ai and pick Llama 4 Maverick from the model switcher — no API key needed.
- Playground: sign in to llama.com (download the weights) and run prompts in the workbench, then copy the generated code.
- API: pick an inference host (Together, Fireworks, Groq, AWS Bedrock…), create a key and call its OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or read the docs.
# via an OpenAI-compatible inference host (Together, Fireworks, Groq, …)
curl https://<your-host>/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model": "llama-4-maverick", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain tokenization in one paragraph."}]}'Where to get access
Consumer app
Chat with Llama 4 Maverick in Meta AI (meta.ai, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger).
meta.ai ↗Direct API
Pay-as-you-go access via llama.com (download the weights).
llama.com (download the weights) ↗