Model comparison

GPT-4.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 46 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4.1 OpenAI

35.9

Rank #219 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 46 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 2 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-4.1 leads 57.6 to 38.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 52.4% for GPT-4.1 and 15.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for GPT-4.1.
  • GPT-4.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4.1 and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index35.930.9
Released2025-04-142025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output33K4K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$8$0.65
Results tracked5254

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Category by category

Coding GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.4 (#238), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)39.6%21%
Aider Polyglot52.4%15.6%
WeirdML39%24.5%
LMArena Coding13911302
ALE-Bench558.1172.97
SWE-bench Verified48.5%—
SciCode—33.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
CadEval42%—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 34.7 (#43), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard54%37.3%

Reasoning GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 11.7 (#339), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-20.4%0%
SimpleBench27%27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark52.3%55.9%
ARC-AGI-15.5%4.4%
EnigmaEval2.2%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts13841281
DTBench68.3%61.9%
LMCA25.6%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index136.78132.2
ForecastBench61.557.5
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles6%—

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4.1: 22.3 (#280), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202538.3%20.6%
Omni-MATH47.1%42.2%
LMArena Math13701299
MATH Level 583%73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.5%0.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)6%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 37.1 (#160), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond66.9%67%
Humanity's Last Exam5.4%5.7%
MMLU-Pro81.1%81%
Vectara Hallucination Rate5.6%8.2%
GPQA (HELM)65.9%65%
LMArena Expert13641259
SimpleQA Verified31.1%—
Confabulations—22.6%

Multimodal GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 38.2 (#67), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision12111142
GeoBench72%52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 49.4 (#133), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English13701269
LMArena Chinese13821277
LMArena French13821259
LMArena German13811291
LMArena Japanese13191207
LMArena Korean13391203
LMArena Russian13771286
LMArena Spanish13761293

Instruction Following Too close to call

GPT-4.1: 71.3 (#153), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
IFEval83.8%90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following13671267

Long Context GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 40.0 (#163), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench63.9%46.2%
LMArena Longer Query13851280

Writing & Preference GPT-4.1 leads

GPT-4.1: 57.6 (#125), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text13831287
LMArena Creative Writing13631267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1420860
WildBench85.4%80%
LMArena Multi-Turn13981289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4.1 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

GPT-4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; GPT-4.1 lists at $2 and $8.

Is GPT-4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

GPT-4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-4.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-4.1 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

46 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4.1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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