Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Google · Jul 2025
Ten cents per million input tokens with multimodal support — the price floor of the 2025 Gemini lineup.
Meta · Apr 2025
Meta's natively multimodal 400B MoE — the largest openly downloadable US-made model, served cheaply across many hosts.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is about 2.4x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 1M for Llama 4 Maverick. And Llama 4 Maverick is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Specs & pricing
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.1 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.4 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1M |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | no | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image, audio, video | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 2025 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Jul 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $1.60 | $3.98 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is about 2.4x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 1M for Llama 4 Maverick. And Llama 4 Maverick is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.1/$0.4 per million input/output tokens, while Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.27/$0.85. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $1.60 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.