Meta · Released Apr 5, 2025Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct
Open multimodal Llama for strong reasoning with efficient everyday serving.
- Capability
- 132.2ECI · #122 of 148
- Input
- $0.321per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.91per 1M tokens
- Context
- 1M16K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.321per million tokens
- Output
- $0.91per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.468cheaper than 63% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $1.10 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $12.56 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $125.63 |
Median of 6 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#122 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (128.0–134.1); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Meta.
The details
- Lab
- Meta
- Released
- Apr 5, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Aug 2024
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 6 API providerslisted on models.dev
What Meta claims
Published by the lab at launch. Settings vary, so compare these only with care.
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About Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct
How much does Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct cost?
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct costs $0.321 input / $0.91 output per million tokens (median across 6 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.468 per million tokens, cheaper than 63% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct?
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct accepts up to 1,000,000 tokens per request and can write up to 16,384 tokens in one response.
How good is Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct?
Epoch AI gives Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct a Capabilities Index score of 132.2 (likely range 128.0–134.1), ranking it #122 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 67.0%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 20.6%.
Is Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct open source?
Yes. Meta publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct support?
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct released?
Meta released Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct on Apr 5, 2025. Its training data runs to Aug 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek, ECI 132.3, $0.32 / $1.10), Magistral Small (Mistral AI, ECI 133.2, $0.50 / $1.50), GPT-4.1 mini (OpenAI, ECI 135.0, $0.40 / $1.60) and Qwen3 8B (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 136.2, $0.18 / $0.70).