Llama 4 Maverick vs Mistral Medium 3.5
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Meta · Apr 2025
Meta's natively multimodal 400B MoE — the largest openly downloadable US-made model, served cheaply across many hosts.
Mistral AI · Mar 2026
Europe's strongest model line: frontier-adjacent quality at $0.40/$2 with EU data residency and on-prem options.
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. Llama 4 Maverick is about 1.9x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 131K for Mistral Medium 3.5. 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
| Llama 4 Maverick | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.27 | $0.4 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.85 | $2 |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | — | — |
| Open weights | yes (Llama 4 Community License) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Aug 2024 | Dec 2025 |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Mar 2026 |
| Example monthly cost* | $3.98 | $7.00 |
* 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 Mistral Medium 3.5?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. Llama 4 Maverick is about 1.9x cheaper per blended million tokens (3:1 input:output mix). Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 131K for Mistral Medium 3.5. 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, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Medium 3.5?
- Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.27/$0.85 per million input/output tokens, while Mistral Medium 3.5 costs $0.4/$2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $3.98 versus $7.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Llama 4 Maverick or Mistral Medium 3.5?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.