Model comparison
Llama 4 Maverick vs Pixtral Large
Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 9.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Pixtral Large's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 2 categories and Pixtral Large in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Pixtral Large leads 21.7 to 10.1.
- Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Pixtral Large.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 32.2 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | 2024-11-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | 128K |
| Max output | 4K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.19 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | $6 |
| Results tracked | 54 | 3 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | — |
| 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
Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Pixtral Large leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Pixtral Large: 21.7 (#218)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | 0.8% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | — |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1299 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Too close to call
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Pixtral Large: 30.6 (#111)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | 1089 |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Pixtral Large: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | — |
Writing & Preference Llama 4 Maverick leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Pixtral Large: 32.9 (#278)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Pixtral Large |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | 988 |
| LMArena Text | 1287 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1267 | — |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Pixtral Large?
Pixtral Large is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.2 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 9.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Pixtral Large's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Pixtral Large?
Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Pixtral Large lists at $2 and $6.
Which has the bigger context window?
Both accept 128K tokens.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Pixtral Large share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral Large has 3.