Model comparison

GPT-4o vs Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 47 shared benchmarks.

GPT-4o OpenAI

28.6

Rank #324 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 47 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Llama 4 Maverick leads 26.0 to 10.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Aider Polyglot: 45.3% for GPT-4o and 15.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $2.50 / $10 for GPT-4o.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-4o and Llama 4 Maverick specifications
GPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index28.630.9
Released2024-05-132025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window128K128K
Max output16K4K
Input $ / M tokens$2.50$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.65
Results tracked7254

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Category by category

Coding Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o: 24.8 (#328), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)21.6%21%
Aider Polyglot45.3%15.6%
WeirdML25.1%24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct51.1%49.7%
LMArena Coding12971302
BigCodeBench Complete61.1%61.4%
SWE-bench Verified31%—
SciCode—33.1%
GSO0%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
CadEval26%—
ALE-Bench—172.97
HumanEval+87.2%—
MBPP+72.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o: 21.0 (#141), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GDPval9.9%—
TheAgentCompany8.6%—
Cybench12.5%—
BALROG32.3%—
LMArena Search1006—
METR Time Horizons40.8%—

Reasoning Too close to call

GPT-4o: 9.4 (#343), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
ARC-AGI-20%0%
SimpleBench17.8%27.7%
ARC-AGI-14.5%4.4%
CritPt0%0%
EnigmaEval0.8%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts12811281
DTBench64.5%61.9%
LMCA16.6%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index128.97132.2
ForecastBench57.757.5
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
Chess Puzzles13%—
LiveBench Reasoning55.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis60.9%—
LiveBench55.3%—

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o: 10.6 (#312), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20256.4%20.6%
Omni-MATH29.3%42.2%
LMArena Math12851299
MATH Level 553.3%73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%0.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)0.4%—
LiveBench Math49.5%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o: 28.8 (#242), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond49.2%67%
Humanity's Last Exam2.7%5.7%
MMLU-Pro71.3%81%
Confabulations15.3%22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.6%8.2%
GPQA (HELM)52%65%
LMArena Expert12501259
SimpleQA Verified26%—
MMLU88.1%—

Multimodal GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 34.5 (#91), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision11371142
GeoBench71%52%
Video-MME71.9%—
VPCT40%—
ScienceQA88.5%—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Too close to call

GPT-4o: 43.2 (#186), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English12831269
LMArena Chinese12771277
LMArena French13041259
LMArena German12821291
LMArena Japanese12571207
LMArena Korean12341203
LMArena Russian12861286
LMArena Spanish12921293

Instruction Following Llama 4 Maverick leads

GPT-4o: 66.6 (#207), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
IFEval81.7%90.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12781267
LiveBench Instruction Following68.6%—

Long Context GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 39.4 (#179), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
Fiction.LiveBench66.7%46.2%
LMArena Longer Query12891280

Writing & Preference GPT-4o leads

GPT-4o: 52.6 (#166), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-4oLlama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text13001287
LMArena Creative Writing12921267
Short-Story Creative Writing81.8%62%
WildBench82.8%80%
LMArena Multi-Turn13021289
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
LiveBench Language47.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-4o better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is the stronger model overall, scoring 30.9 to 28.6 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4o 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-4o lists at $2.50 and $10.

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

Llama 4 Maverick scores higher on coding benchmarks: 26.6 versus 24.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 128K tokens.

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

47 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o has 72 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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