Llama 4 Maverick pricing & price history
Llama 4 Maverick by Meta Llama costs $0.35 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 524K token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.35 input / $1.00 output.
Price history
| Date | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-06 | $0.19 → $0.35 +87% | $0.65 → $1.00 +53% |
No real-traffic data for Meta Llama's own API on this model (it may not be served directly); the table below covers third-party hosts and says nothing about the official API.
Which platform runs Llama 4 Maverick most reliably
2 platformsBy 30-day real-traffic success rate, Parasail is the most stable and also the cheapest.
| Platform | Last 30 days | Stability | 24 h | 30 min | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parasail most stable | Occasional issues (2 d)avg 99.89% | 100% | 100% | ||
| Collecting data | — | — |
Success rates come from real API traffic routed to each platform (public OpenRouter data), not our probes; each daily bar is the average of that day's samples. Green ≥ 99.5 %, yellow ≥ 97 %, orange ≥ 90 %, red < 90 %. Updated 28m ago.
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About Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward...
FAQ
How much does Llama 4 Maverick cost?
Llama 4 Maverick by Meta Llama costs $0.35 per 1M input tokens and $1.00 per 1M output tokens, with a 524K token context window. The cheapest provider currently charges $0.35 input / $1.00 output. A typical request with 2,000 input and 500 output tokens costs about $0.0012.
What is the context window of Llama 4 Maverick?
Llama 4 Maverick supports up to 524,288 tokens of context and up to 32,768 output tokens per request.
Has Llama 4 Maverick’s price changed?
Yes. ModelBank recorded 1 price change; the latest on 2026-11-06.
Is Llama 4 Maverick being deprecated?
No retirement date has been announced for Llama 4 Maverick as of 2026-11-12.
What are cheaper alternatives to Llama 4 Maverick?
Cheaper options include GLM 5.3 Flash ($0.0399/$0.0784), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.022/$0.40), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ($0.098/$0.29), Llama 4 Scout ($0.10/$0.30).