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Grok 3 vs Llama 4 Maverick: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Llama 4 Maverick is significantly cheaper at $0.20/$0.60 per million tokens vs $3.00/$15.00. Llama 4 Maverick offers a larger 1049K context window vs 128K.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureGrok 3Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderxAIMeta
Input Price / 1M tokens$3.00$0.200
Output Price / 1M tokens$15.00$0.600
Context Window128K1.048576M
Max Output Tokens16,38432,768
Arena ELO1,3001,290
Coding ELO1,2901,280
TTFT (ms)300250
Tokens/sec8090
MultimodalYesYes
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesYes
When to Use Grok 3

Choose Grok 3 when you need: strong benchmark performance, good reasoning capabilities, vision and multimodal support, fast for its capability tier. It excels at general-purpose, reasoning, coding tasks.

Strengths:

  • Strong benchmark performance
  • Good reasoning capabilities
  • Vision and multimodal support
  • Fast for its capability tier

Best for:

general-purposereasoningcoding
When to Use Llama 4 Maverick

Choose Llama 4 Maverick when you need: open-source model with strong performance, very affordable via hosted providers, 1m context window, mixture-of-experts architecture. It excels at chatbots, coding, general-purpose, open-source tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two. Its 1049K context window is larger, making it better for long-document processing.

Strengths:

  • Open-source model with strong performance
  • Very affordable via hosted providers
  • 1M context window
  • Mixture-of-experts architecture

Best for:

chatbotscodinggeneral-purposeopen-source

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