Model comparison

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick

DeepSeek V4 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.6 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek

53.6

Rank #35 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where DeepSeek V4 Flash leads 53.7 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 89% for DeepSeek V4 Flash and 4.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

DeepSeek V4 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
DeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderDeepSeekMeta
Noometry Index53.630.9
Released2026-04-242025-04-05
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output393K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.65
Results tracked4154

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Category by category

Coding DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 47.9 (#59), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
SciCode49.9%33.1%
WeirdML63%24.5%
LMArena Coding14571302
ALE-Bench1,306172.97
FrontierCode18.8%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1582—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.7 (#30), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-261.4%0%
SimpleBench61.1%27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.2%55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)89.6%8%
ARC-AGI-189%4.4%
CritPt16.6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14441281
DTBench90.9%61.9%
LMCA41.7%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.49132.2
Chess Puzzles33%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles34%—
ForecastBench—57.5

Math DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 60.3 (#37), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%20.6%
LMArena Math14271299
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)57.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 424.4%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions76.5%—
ProofBench56%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 55.4 (#48), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond91%67%
LMArena Expert14411259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified33.6%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Not comparable

DeepSeek V4 Flash: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 53.0 (#72), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14201269
LMArena Chinese14681277
LMArena French14391259
LMArena German14181291
LMArena Japanese14061207
LMArena Korean13841203
LMArena Russian14281286
LMArena Spanish14361293

Instruction Following DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 74.9 (#81), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14211267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 43.8 (#85), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14341280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference DeepSeek V4 Flash leads

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 63.8 (#61), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14321287
LMArena Creative Writing14031267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1559860
LMArena Multi-Turn14491289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash better than Llama 4 Maverick?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 53.6 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick?

DeepSeek V4 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick lists at $0.19 and $0.65.

Is DeepSeek V4 Flash or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

DeepSeek V4 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.9 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do DeepSeek V4 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek V4 Flash has 41 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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