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DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 4 Maverick
List-price comparison ·DeepSeek V3 details ·Llama 4 Maverick details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 4 Maverick is the cheapest — 22% less than the priciest here ($56.00/mo vs $72.04/mo).
| DeepSeek V3 | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.257 | $0.200 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $1.03 | $0.800 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0007 | $0.0006 |
| Context window | 163,840 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 16k tokens | 16,384 tokens |
| Quality score | 85/100 | 74/100 |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | DeepSeek V3 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.7204 | $0.56 |
| 10,000 | $7.20 | $5.60 |
| 100,000 | $72.04 | $56.00 |
DeepSeek V3
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Llama 4 Maverick
Strong multi-modal (text + image) open-weight model with a 1M-token context window — good for self-hosted or fine-tuned deployments.
Smaller completion-token cap (16K) than newer commercial models limits very long single-turn outputs — chunk long generations.
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