Llama 4 Maverick API Pricing
Meta · Budget · Llama 4 · released 2025-04. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
The price we publish for Llama 4 Maverick has changed 4 times since 2026-08-15, most recently on 2026-09-22 when the reference host changed (-17.3%); it is now the 80th cheapest of 142 Budget models. None of its 5 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. It is rated a stable release but does not meet all four criteria of the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.19 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.65 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1327 (as of 2026-09-25)
- Available on: AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
Llama 4 Maverick market position
On blended price ($0.513 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 44% of Budget models: 80th cheapest of 142. Across every category it is cheaper than 72% of priced text models in the catalogue: 80th cheapest of 281. Its Arena ELO of 1327 ranks 60th of the 68 models that carry one, above 12% of them.
Llama 4 Maverick licence, size and capabilities
Llama 4 Maverick is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Llama 4, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 400B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Code, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.19 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $61 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $90 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $266 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $164 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $187 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $67 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $83 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $308 |
Llama 4 Maverick pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 5 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 5 hosts: DigitalOcean at $0.19 input / $0.65 output per 1M tokens. The dearest, Google, charges 1.8x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean (the price shown above) | $0.19 | $0.65 |
| DeepInfra — fp8 | $0.20 | $0.80 |
| Novita — fp8 | $0.27 | $0.85 |
| Parasail — fp8 | $0.35 | $1.00 |
| $0.35 | $1.15 |
Llama 4 Maverick price history
Llama 4 Maverick has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.20 input / $0.80 output per 1M tokens. The price we publish has changed 4 times since then, 3 of them a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-22, was -17.3% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.19 input / $0.65 output (reference host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is -17.3% against 2026-08-15.
| Date | Old price (in / out) | New price (in / out) | Blended change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | $0.20 / $0.80 | $0.19 / $0.65 | -17.3% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-09-21 | $0.19 / $0.65 | $0.20 / $0.80 | +20.9% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-09-15 | $0.20 / $0.70 | $0.19 / $0.65 | -6.3% |
| 2026-08-31 | $0.20 / $0.80 | $0.20 / $0.70 | -11.7% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
Alternatives to Llama 4 Maverick
- Next cheaper Budget model: Saba (Mistral) at $0.480 blended, 6% less.
- Next more expensive: Qwen3 Coder Next (Alibaba) at $0.596 blended, 16% more.
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Scout (Meta) — $0.10 in / $0.30 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1322: 53% cheaper, 5 ELO points lower
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — $0.10 in / $0.32 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1318: 50% cheaper, 9 ELO points lower
- GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1318: 9% cheaper, 9 ELO points lower
- Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta) — $0.40 in / $0.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1293: 22% cheaper, 34 ELO points lower
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: Llama 4 Scout (Meta), 53% cheaper, 5 ELO points lower, out of 6 models in that band.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: Llama 4 Maverick itself has the highest score of the 2 models priced within 20% of it.
Llama 4 Maverick head to head
Common questions about Llama 4 Maverick pricing
- How much does Llama 4 Maverick cost?
- Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Llama 4 Maverick offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Llama 4 Maverick cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Llama 4 Maverick costs about $61 at list prices.
- Has the price of Llama 4 Maverick changed?
- Llama 4 Maverick has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.20 input / $0.80 output per 1M tokens. The price we publish has changed 4 times since then, 3 of them a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-22, was -17.3% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.19 input / $0.65 output (reference host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is -17.3% against 2026-08-15.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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