GPT-4o mini vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
OpenAI · Jul 2024
The 2024 budget classic that defined the cheap-LLM tier; GPT-5 nano and mini have since taken its crown.
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. GPT-4o mini is about 1.6x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 128K for GPT-4o mini. 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
| GPT-4o mini | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.6 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Max output | 16K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | no | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Oct 2023 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Jul 2024 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $2.40 | $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, GPT-4o mini 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. GPT-4o mini is about 1.6x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 128K for GPT-4o mini. 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, GPT-4o mini or Llama 4 Maverick?
- GPT-4o mini costs $0.15/$0.6 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 $2.40 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, GPT-4o mini or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.