Meta · 2025-04-05
Llama 4 Maverick pricing
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward...
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What Llama 4 Maverick costs a month
| Workload | Standard |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $16.27 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $227 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $71.46 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Ling 3.0 Flash VL | inclusionai | $0.06 | $0.18 | $0.012 | 131K | $4.86 |
| Ternary Bonsai 2 9B | prism-ml | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.04 | 262K | $5.16 |
| Qwen3.5-Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.065 | $0.26 | – | 1M | $6.04 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other Llama models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Spark Open | $1.25 | $4.25 | $0.15 | 1.05M | $107 |
| Muse Wonder | $4 | $20 | $0.20 | 1.05M | $420 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 | $1.25 | $4.25 | $0.15 | 1.05M | $107 |
| Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | $0.10 | $0.20 | $0.002 | 1.05M | $6.90 |
| Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor | $0.10 | $0.20 | $0.002 | 1.05M | $6.90 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.04 | 131K | $27.90 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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Llama 4 Maverick: questions
How much does Llama 4 Maverick cost?
$0.188 per 1M input tokens and $0.652 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.05. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0005.
What is Llama 4 Maverick’s context window?
524,288 tokens, with up to 16,384 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Llama 4 Maverick?
GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.046 in and $0.074 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches Llama 4 Maverick’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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