Model comparison

GPT-5 Pro vs Llama 4 Maverick

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 136× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.4

Rank #64 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 Pro leads 38.9 to 10.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 70.2% for GPT-5 Pro and 4.4% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Pro and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index46.430.9
Released2025-10-062025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output272K4K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$120$0.65
Results tracked1254

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
WeirdML60.4%24.5%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
SciCode—33.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
LMArena Coding—1302
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
ALE-Bench—172.97
AlgoTune1.31—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-218.3%0%
SimpleBench61.6%27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark76.8%55.9%
ARC-AGI-170.2%4.4%
EnigmaEval18.8%0.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index150.28132.2
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
CritPt—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1281
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 419.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—20.6%
Omni-MATH—42.2%
LMArena Math—1299
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
Humanity's Last Exam31.6%5.7%
GPQA Diamond—67%
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%
LMArena Expert—1259

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1142
GeoBench—52%
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English—1269
LMArena Chinese—1277
LMArena French—1259
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Russian—1286
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
IFEval—90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1267

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%
LMArena Longer Query—1280

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text—1287
LMArena Creative Writing—1267
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1289

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Pro better than Llama 4 Maverick?

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 136× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Pro 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-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.

Is GPT-5 Pro or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Pro and Llama 4 Maverick share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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