Model comparison

GPT-4o mini vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 40 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o mini OpenAI

25.5

Rank #343 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 33.4 to 17.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 37.7% for GPT-4o mini and 67% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • GPT-4o mini is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.60 per million input/output tokens, against $0.19 / $0.65 for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o mini and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index25.530.9
Released2024-07-182025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output16K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$0.60$0.65
Results tracked6054

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Category by category

Coding Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
Aider Polyglot3.6%15.6%
WeirdML11.8%24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%49.7%
LMArena Coding12901302
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%61.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
SciCode—33.1%
LiveBench Coding43.1%—
ALE-Bench—172.97
HumanEval+83.5%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
BALROG17.4%—

Reasoning Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-20%0%
SimpleBench10.7%27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark28.8%55.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts12671281
DTBench54.4%61.9%
LMCA10.4%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.56132.2
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles0%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
LiveBench Reasoning32.8%—
Mystery Game Puzzles12%—
LiveBench Data Analysis50%—
ForecastBench—57.5
LiveBench41.3%—
PIQA88.7%—

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.9%20.6%
Omni-MATH28%42.2%
LMArena Math12671299
MATH Level 552.6%73%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.7%—
LiveBench Math36.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
GSM8K91.3%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond37.7%67%
MMLU-Pro60.3%81%
Confabulations37.2%22.6%
GPQA (HELM)36.8%65%
LMArena Expert12351259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified8.3%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
BoolQ88.7%—
MMLU81.8%—

Multimodal Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision10661142
GeoBench64%52%
Video-MME64.8%—
VPCT34%—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English12661269
LMArena Chinese12651277
LMArena French12971259
LMArena German12721291
LMArena Japanese12161207
LMArena Korean11951203
LMArena Russian12751286
LMArena Spanish12761293

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
IFEval78.2%90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12581267
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%—

Long Context GPT-4o mini leads

GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query12891280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Too close to call

GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4o miniLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text12861287
LMArena Creative Writing12681267
Short-Story Creative Writing67.2%62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing873860
WildBench79.1%80%
LMArena Multi-Turn12851289
LiveBench Language28.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o mini better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o mini or Llama 4 Maverick?

GPT-4o mini 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 GPT-4o mini or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Llama 4 Maverick scores higher on coding benchmarks: 26.6 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

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

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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