Llama 4 Maverick vs Llama 4 Scout
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Llama 4 Maverick
Meta · Apr 2025
Meta's natively multimodal 400B MoE — the largest openly downloadable US-made model, served cheaply across many hosts.
Llama 4 Scout
Meta · Apr 2025
A 10M-token context window — still the largest ever shipped — in a 109B MoE that fits on a single H100.
The verdict
Llama 4 Maverick wins 3 of the 3 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Scout. Llama 4 Scout is about 1.5x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Llama 4 Scout also takes 10M of context versus 1M for Llama 4 Maverick.
Benchmark head-to-head 3–0
Specs & pricing
| Llama 4 Maverick | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.27 | $0.18 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.85 | $0.59 |
| Context window | 1M | 10M |
| Max output | — | — |
| Open weights | yes (Llama 4 Community License) | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | no | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Aug 2024 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $3.98 | $2.68 |
* 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, Llama 4 Maverick or Llama 4 Scout?
- Llama 4 Maverick wins 3 of the 3 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Scout. Llama 4 Scout is about 1.5x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Llama 4 Scout also takes 10M of context versus 1M for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Llama 4 Scout?
- Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.27/$0.85 per million input/output tokens, while Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18/$0.59. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $3.98 versus $2.68.
- Which model is better for coding, Llama 4 Maverick or Llama 4 Scout?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.
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