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 the 16 models tracked, Llama 4 Maverick is #1 cheapest to run (blended $/1M at a 3:1 input:output mix), #2 by input price, and #2 (tied) by context window.
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The nearest models by blended cost to run.
Put it to work
Specs from BitByteCore's hand-verified Frontier Ledger (v2026-07-04, verified 21 Jun 2026). Model pricing moves fast — confirm with Meta before you rely on a figure.