Price Per TokenPrice Per Token
Meta-llama
Meta-llama
vs
Meta-llama
Meta-llama

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct vs Llama 4 Maverick

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

Get our weekly newsletter on pricing changes, new releases, and tools.

Join the Price Per Token Community

Key Takeaways

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct wins:

  • No clear advantages in compared metrics

Llama 4 Maverick wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Supports vision
Price Advantage
Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmark Advantage
Llama 4 Maverick
Context Window
Llama 4 Maverick
Speed
Llama 4 Maverick

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureLlama 3.1 405B InstructLlama 4 Maverick
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyLlama 3.1 405B InstructLlama 4 Maverick
LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source
AuthorMeta-llamaMeta-llama
ReleasedJul 2024Apr 2025

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Modalities

Input
text
Output
text

Llama 4 Maverick Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 4 Maverick has cheaper input pricing at $0.15/M tokens. Llama 4 Maverick has cheaper output pricing at $0.60/M tokens.
Llama 4 Maverick scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 15.6, compared to Llama 3.1 405B Instruct's score of 14.5.
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct has a 131,000 token context window, while Llama 4 Maverick has a 1,048,576 token context window.
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct does not support vision. Llama 4 Maverick supports vision.