Model comparison
Hy4 preview vs Llama 4 Maverick
Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 4.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy4 preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Hy4 preview scores higher in 3 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Hy4 preview leads 54.5 to 24.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 68.2% for Hy4 preview and 8% for Llama 4 Maverick.
- Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $0.83 / $2.50 for Hy4 preview.
- Hy4 preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Tencent | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 44.6 | 30.6 |
| Released | 2026-08-28 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | 128K |
| Max output | 64K | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.83 | $0.19 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.50 | $0.65 |
| Results tracked | 3 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Hy4 preview leads
Hy4 preview: 51.4 (#36), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 21% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 15.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1633 | — |
| SciCode | — | 33.1% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 49.7% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1302 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 61.4% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 172.97 |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 37.3% |
Reasoning Hy4 preview leads
Hy4 preview: 30.6 (#75), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| NYT Connections (extended) | 68.2% | 8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.7% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 55.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 4.4% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1281 |
| DTBench | — | 61.9% |
| LMCA | — | 15.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 132.2 |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math Hy4 preview leads
Hy4 preview: 54.5 (#37), Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 20.6% |
| ProofBench | 75% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 42.2% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1299 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 73% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0.7% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 67% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 5.7% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 81% |
| Confabulations | — | 22.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 8.2% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 65% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1259 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| GeoBench | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 31.8% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1269 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1277 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1291 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1203 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1293 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 90.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1267 |
Long Context Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 46.2% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1280 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Hy4 preview: —, Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)
| Benchmark | Hy4 preview | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1266 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 62% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 860 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1289 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Hy4 preview better than Llama 4 Maverick?
Hy4 preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.6 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 4.1× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Hy4 preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Hy4 preview 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; Hy4 preview lists at $0.83 and $2.50.
Is Hy4 preview or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?
Hy4 preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.4 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Hy4 preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do Hy4 preview and Llama 4 Maverick share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Hy4 preview has 3 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.