GPT-5 nano vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
OpenAI · Aug 2025
OpenAI's cheapest model — $0.05 per million input tokens — for latency-critical routing, autocomplete and bulk tagging.
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. On price the gap is dramatic: GPT-5 nano works out roughly 3.0x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 400K for GPT-5 nano. 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-5 nano | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.05 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.4 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 400K | 1M |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | May 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Aug 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $1.10 | $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-5 nano 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. On price the gap is dramatic: GPT-5 nano works out roughly 3.0x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 400K for GPT-5 nano. 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-5 nano or Llama 4 Maverick?
- GPT-5 nano costs $0.05/$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 $1.10 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, GPT-5 nano or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.