Llama 4 Maverick API price, and what each result really costs
Meta, listed 5 Apr 2025. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it. Source: OpenRouter. meta-llama/llama-4-maverick
List price per million tokens
- Input
- $0.35
- Cached input
- n/a
- Output
- $1.00
- Context window
- 524K tokens
Note: Open-weight; no first-party list price. OpenRouter headline; hosts range $0.19-$0.35 in / $0.65-$1.15 out.
What it costs per task, and per task that works
Six common task shapes with typical token counts. The real cost counts the tries that get redone; the rates are examples, not measurements.
| Task | Per 1,000 tries | Per 1,000 that work, 8 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 6 in 10 | Per 1,000 that work, 4 in 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support bot answer3,000 in / 300 out | $1.35 | $1.69 | $2.25 | $3.38 |
| Invoice field extraction2,500 in / 250 out | $1.13 | $1.41 | $1.88 | $2.81 |
| Lead scoring1,200 in / 100 out | $0.52 | $0.65 | $0.87 | $1.30 |
| Email reply draft1,500 in / 400 out | $0.93 | $1.16 | $1.54 | $2.31 |
| Translation900 in / 800 out | $1.12 | $1.39 | $1.86 | $2.79 |
| Search re-ranking4,000 in / 50 out | $1.45 | $1.81 | $2.42 | $3.62 |
Work out your own real cost per resultTest Llama 4 Maverick on your own prompt
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Worked-through switches: GPT-4o → Llama 4 Maverick: cost and quality on real tasks
Questions
How much does the Llama 4 Maverick API cost?
$0.35 per million input tokens and $1.00 per million output tokens. Price checked 12 Nov 2026; unchanged since we started tracking it.
What does a result that works really cost with Llama 4 Maverick?
A support bot answer (about 3,000 tokens in, 300 out) costs $0.0014 per try. If 6 in 10 work first time, each answer that works really costs $0.0023, because the redone ones were paid for too.