Llama 4 Maverick

Meta's first MoE Llama generation: a 400B mixture-of-experts model with 17B active across 128 experts that fits on a single H100 node.

Params: 400B, 17B active
Context: 1M tokens
Cutoff: Aug 2024
License: Llama 4 Community License

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Hosted API price

Cheapest via DigitalOcean · per 1M tokens

USD

Input: $0.20 /1M
Output: $0.696 /1M
Hosted by: 5 providers

Hosted API pricing

How we price

Order

Providers are listed cheapest input rate first, then by output rate, a tie going to the creator's own listing. A provider that lists the model without a published rate sits at the end.

Prices

Base-tier, on-demand rates in USD per 1M tokens, converted at ECB reference rates where a provider publishes in another currency. Cached-input and batch rates show only where a provider publishes them. "Cheapest" marks the one provider with the lowest input and output pair; a tie wears no badge.

Cost

Input rate times the input tokens plus output rate times the output tokens, at the monthly volume set above the table. Cached-input, batch, long-context and reasoning-token billing are not modelled.

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Every provider serving Llama 4 Maverick, cheapest input first. Set your monthly volume to see what each would bill.

Input M Output M

Every provider serving Llama 4 Maverick, with its price per 1M input and output tokens and what the volume above would cost
Provider	Input /1M	Output /1M	Cost at 10M in + 2M out	Link
DigitalOcean Cheapest	$0.20	$0.696	$3.39	Visit website
Replicate	$0.25	$0.95	$4.40	Visit website
Azure	$0.25	$1.00	$4.50	Visit website
Novita	$0.27	$0.85	$4.40	Visit website
Meta Creator	Open weights, no hosted price			Visit website

Heads up: Base-tier, on-demand rates per 1M tokens; cached, batch and long-context tiers excluded. A provider may serve a shorter context or a quantized build than the creator's release. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Estimated cost to self-host

Llama 4 Maverick needs about 228 GB of GPU memory at 4-bit with 32K context. The cheapest rental that fits is 8× RTX A6000 at about $3,283 a month.

That costs the same as roughly 12B tokens a month on DigitalOcean's API. Self-hosting is more expensive below that volume.

Single node ≤ 8

What it costs to self-host Llama 4 Maverick at each precision: the memory it needs, the cheapest rental that holds it, that rental's month and the API volume it pays off at
Precision	Memory	Cheapest fit (32K context)(Full 1M context)	Cost /mo	Break-even vs API
4-bit INT4 / FP4	228 GB320 GB	8× RTX A6000	$3,283$4,954	12B tokens /mo18B tokens /mo
8-bit FP8 / INT8	408 GB500 GB	8× A100	$9,850$11,362	35B tokens /mo40B tokens /mo
16-bit FP16 / BF16	808 GB999 GB	4× B300	$22,723$22,723	80B tokens /mo80B tokens /mo

Estimates based on median on-demand rates for Nvidia GPUs. Memory is weights plus KV cache for one request, using FP8 KV cache where supported and FP16/BF16 otherwise. Break-even assumes a 5:1 input-to-output ratio. No guarantee of runtime support, usable performance, or that a matching quantized build exists. Pricing methodology.

Similarly priced models

The models nearest Llama 4 Maverick by blended rate, each at its own cheapest provider.

Models priced nearest Llama 4 Maverick per 1M tokens, each at its cheapest provider
Model	Blended /1M	Input /1M	Output /1M	Context	Cutoff	vs Llama 4 Maverick
Mistral Small 4 Mistral	$0.225	$0.15	$0.60	256K		−20%
Qwen3.8-27B Alibaba Cloud	$0.225	$0.17	$0.50	262K		−20%
Qwen3-Coder-Next Alibaba Cloud	$0.2283	$0.078	$0.98	262K		−19%
Llama 4 Scout Meta	$0.24	$0.16	$0.64	10M	Aug 2024	−15%
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B Alibaba Cloud	$0.2487	$0.115	$0.917	262K		−12%
Llama 4 Maverick This model Meta	$0.2827	$0.20	$0.696	1M	Aug 2024
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.2833	$0.20	$0.70	262K		0%
Muse Glimmer 30B Meta	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	131K	Jan 2026	+6%
Qwen2.5-7B Instruct Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.30	$0.30	33K		+6%
Qwen3-235B-A22B FP8 Alibaba Cloud	$0.30	$0.20	$0.80	33K		+6%
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Alibaba Cloud	$0.3153	$0.172	$1.032	262K		+12%

USD per 1M tokens at each model's cheapest listed provider. Blended is the cost of 10M input plus 2M output tokens, spread over the 12M.

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Capabilities

What Llama 4 Maverick accepts and can do, as published by Meta.

Text Accepts and generates natural-language text.
Image Accepts images as input alongside text.
Function calling Connect to external tools, APIs, and systems.

Common questions

What is Llama 4 Maverick good for?

Text and image work over a very long context. Open weights under the Llama 4 Community License, on a multi-GPU node.

When is Llama 4 Maverick not a good fit?

Self-hosting on small hardware: memory follows the full 400B parameters, not the 17B active. No video input or structured output, and its knowledge is older than the current open models'.

What is the cheapest way to run Llama 4 Maverick?

Hosted, unless you push serious volume. DigitalOcean charges $0.20 in / $0.696 out per 1M tokens. The cheapest rental that fits is 8x RTX A6000 at $3,283 a month, which costs the same as about 12B tokens a month on that API.

Can I self-host Llama 4 Maverick?

Yes. The weights are released under the Llama 4 Community License. At 4-bit it needs about 228 GB of GPU memory, which starts at roughly $3,283 a month on the cheapest rental that fits.