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Explore all 2 models from Meta with detailed pricing, pros & cons, and developer recommendations.

2
Models
$0.100
Lowest Input
10M
Max Context
2
Quality Tiers

Quick Recommendations

Best Value: Llama 4 Scout ($0.100/1M)
Best Quality: Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick

Flagship

Open-source, multimodal

Official Pricing

When to use: For teams wanting open-source control or self-hosting with multimodal needs.

Upgrade Highlights

  • Open-source — self-host for free, full model weight control
  • 1M context window — first open-source model with this capacity
  • Multimodal (text + vision) + fine-tunable — unique combination
  • 17B active params (109B total) — MoE architecture for efficiency
  • 4K max output is limiting — use for input-heavy, short-output tasks
Input Price
$0.200
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$0.600
per 1M tokens
Cached Input
per 1M tokens
Batch Input
per 1M tokens
Context Window: 1M
Max Output: 4,096 tokens
Knowledge Cutoff: 2024-08
VisionFunction CallingFine-tuningJSON ModeFree Tier

Pros

  • Open-source — can self-host for free
  • 1M context window
  • Multimodal + fine-tunable

Cons

  • Only 4K max output
  • No JSON mode
  • Hosted pricing via third-party (Together AI)

Performance

Output Speed~80 tok/s
Rate Limit

Multimodal

Image InputImage OutputAudio InputAudio Output

Benchmarks

MMLU
84.5%
HumanEval
83.0%
SWE-bench Verified
44.2%

Llama 4 Scout

Mid-tier

Open-source, long context

Official Pricing

When to use: Unmatched for processing very long documents. Best for RAG with massive context windows.

Upgrade Highlights

  • 10M token context — 10x larger than any other model available
  • Open-source + fine-tunable — self-host for unlimited usage
  • $0.10/M input — cheapest per-token model in the market
  • 17B active params (109B total) — same efficient MoE as Maverick
  • 4K max output — designed for retrieval/analysis, not long generation
Input Price
$0.100
per 1M tokens
Output Price
$0.300
per 1M tokens
Cached Input
per 1M tokens
Batch Input
per 1M tokens
Context Window: 10M
Max Output: 4,096 tokens
Knowledge Cutoff: 2024-08
VisionFunction CallingFine-tuningJSON ModeFree Tier

Pros

  • 10M token context — largest available
  • Cheapest per-token model
  • Open-source + fine-tunable

Cons

  • Only 4K max output
  • No JSON mode
  • Quality below proprietary flagships

Performance

Output Speed~90 tok/s
Rate Limit

Multimodal

Image InputImage OutputAudio InputAudio Output

Benchmarks

MMLU
81.0%
HumanEval
78.5%

Side-by-Side Comparison

ModelTierInputOutputContext
Llama 4 MaverickFlagship$0.200$0.6001M
Llama 4 ScoutMid-tier$0.100$0.30010M