How much does Llama 4 Maverick cost per million tokens?

Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.188 per million input tokens and $0.652 per million output tokens at list price.

What is the context window of Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick accepts up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and returns up to 16,384 output tokens.

How much do 1,000 chat messages cost with Llama 4 Maverick?

About $0.51, assuming 1,000 input + 500 output tokens per message.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Llama 4 Maverick?

In the same price range, OpenAI GPT-6 Luna Pro ($0.1 / $0.5), OpenAI GPT-6 Luna ($0.1 / $0.5), Qwen Qwen3.8 Omni Flash ($0.15 / $0.47) cost less per token. Quality differs: test on your own prompts.

Where can I buy Meta API credits for less?

Discount credit books resell OpenRouter usage below face value within their depth, OpenRouter adds a 5.5% card fee, and Meta sells its own credits at face value. The live table on this page ranks them for $100 of usage.

Meta · live price

Llama 4 Maverick API 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...

Small and cheap (under $1 per 1M)Tool callingimage input

Input: $0.188; per 1M tokens
Output: $0.652; per 1M tokens
Cached input: –; per 1M tokens
Context: 1.0M; 16K max output

List price from OpenRouter, which passes Meta's price through without markup. Refreshed hourly. Released April 5, 2025. Model id meta-llama/llama-4-maverick.

What Llama 4 Maverick costs in practice

At list price, before any batch or caching discount.

1,000 chat messages

$0.51

1,000 input + 500 output tokens each

1,000 RAG questions

$1.83

8,000 input + 500 output tokens each

100 coding-agent steps

$0.69

30,000 input + 2,000 output tokens each, no caching

Llama 4 Maverick price history

No price change since we started tracking on 2026-10-01. We record prices daily; changes will show here.

Llama 4 Maverick price by host

5 hosts serve this model. Prices are the same or higher than list; the cheapest are first.

DigitalOcean$0.188 in · $0.652 out · 128K ctx · 99.6% uptime 24h
DeepInfra$0.2 in · $0.8 out · 1.0M ctx · 99.8% uptime 24h
Novita$0.27 in · $0.85 out · 1.0M ctx · 99.7% uptime 24h
Parasail$0.35 in · $1 out · 524K ctx · 99.9% uptime 24h
Google$0.35 in · $1.15 out · 524K ctx

Where to buy Meta credits for less

Llama 4 Maverick costs the same per token everywhere it's sold through OpenRouter. What changes is the price of the credits. Live quotes for $100 of usage:

#	Where you buy	You payYou pay for $100.00 of usage	vs list price	Price source
1	OrbioCardCheapest right now Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee and card processing, both included in the quote.	$85.10 incl. $2.60 card processing	-14.9%	live quote
2	smaaartCard Credits from a discount book, plus a 5% platform fee on face value. Card processing and taxes shown at checkout.	$95.00 + card processing and tax at checkout (not in this number)	-5.0%	live quote
3	Direct from the labCard Prepaid credits at face value (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google…). Taxes may apply.	$100.00 no top-up fee	list price	face value
4	OpenRouterCrypto 5% on crypto purchases. No markup on model prices.	$105.00 fees included	+5.0%	published fee
5	OpenRouterCard 5.5% on card purchases, $0.80 minimum. No markup on model prices.	$105.50 fees included	+5.5%	published fee

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Llama 4 Maverick cost calculator

Enter your monthly tokens to price your own usage.

Model$0.188 in / $0.652 out per 1M tokens · list price, liveInput tokens / month (millions)Output tokens / month (millions)

Usage at list price$15.90/ month(quotes below are for $16.00: purchases run from $5.00 to $10,000.00)

Cheaper alternatives to Llama 4 Maverick

Other labs' models in the same price range or the one below, cheaper per token.

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna Pro	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
OpenAI: GPT-6 Luna	$0.1	$0.5	$0.2	1.1M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Omni Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	$0.03	$0.5	$0.147	1.0M
Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash	$0.15	$0.47	$0.23	1M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash	$0.15	$0.5	$0.237	1.0M

Other Meta models

Model	Input / 1M	Output / 1M	Blended 3:1	Context
Llama 4 Scout	$0.1	$0.3	$0.15	1.3M
Llama Guard 4 12B	$0.18	$0.18	$0.18	164K
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	$0.1	$0.32	$0.155	131K
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct	$0.027	$0.201	$0.071	60K
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct	$0.05	$0.33	$0.12	131K
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	$0.4	$0.4	$0.4	131K

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