Llama 4 Maverick vs OpenAI o3
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.
OpenAI · Apr 2025
OpenAI's dedicated 2025 reasoning model that pioneered thinking-with-images and agentic tool use within chain-of-thought.
The verdict
OpenAI o3 wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Maverick. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Maverick works out roughly 8.4x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 200K for OpenAI o3. 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 0–2
Specs & pricing
| Llama 4 Maverick | OpenAI o3 | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | 68.9 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.27 | $2 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.85 | $8 |
| Context window | 1M | 200K |
| Max output | — | 100K |
| Open weights | yes (Llama 4 Community License) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Aug 2024 | May 2024 |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $3.98 | $32.00 |
* 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 OpenAI o3?
- OpenAI o3 wins 2 of the 2 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Maverick. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Maverick works out roughly 8.4x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 200K for OpenAI o3. 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 OpenAI o3?
- Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.27/$0.85 per million input/output tokens, while OpenAI o3 costs $2/$8. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $3.98 versus $32.00.
- Which model is better for coding, Llama 4 Maverick or OpenAI o3?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.