Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Google · Jun 2025
The 2025 fast-tier favorite: hybrid reasoning, full multimodality and a 1M context at $0.30/$2.50.
Meta · Apr 2025
Meta's natively multimodal 400B MoE — the largest openly downloadable US-made model, served cheaply across many hosts.
The verdict
Gemini 2.5 Flash wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Maverick. Llama 4 Maverick is about 2.0x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 2.5 Flash 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.
Benchmark head-to-head 2–0
Specs & pricing
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.3 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $2.5 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1M |
| Max output | 66K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image, audio, video | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Jan 2025 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Jun 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $6.75 | $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 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Maverick. Llama 4 Maverick is about 2.0x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Gemini 2.5 Flash 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 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Gemini 2.5 Flash costs $0.3/$2.5 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 $6.75 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, Gemini 2.5 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.