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Llama 4 Maverick vs Llama Nemotron Ultra 253B

Side-by-side comparison of API pricing, specs, benchmarks, and capabilities

Llama 4 Maverick is 82.1% cheaper on blended cost ($0.375 vs $2.10/Mtok)
 
Nby NVIDIA
Overview
StatusCurrent open weights Open weights Current open weights Open weights
Released Apr 6, 2025 Jan 1, 2025
Pricing per million tokens
Input $0.150/Mtok $0.600/Mtok
Output $0.600/Mtok $3.60/Mtok
Blended avg $0.375/Mtok $2.10/Mtok
Specifications
Context window 1M tokens 128K tokens
Parameters 17B (128 experts) 253B
Speed (TPS)
Modalities
Input
textimage
text
Benchmarks source: Vellum LLM Leaderboard
Avg benchmark score 65.1 70
Perf / dollar 173.6 33.3
GPQA Diamond 69.8 76
LiveCodeBench 41 64
MMMLU 84.6 75 vendor
SWE-Bench Verified 30 vendor
Humanity's Last Exam 15 vendor
ARC-AGI 2 14 vendor
AIME 2025 45 vendor
BFCL 58 vendor
HumanEval 80 vendor
MATH 500 65 vendor
Independent composite scores each on its own scale — not part of the average above
LMSYS Chatbot Arena 1347.5 ELO
Providers
Available from
DeepInfra — $0.150/$0.600/Mtok
NVIDIA — $0.600/$3.60/Mtok

Cost at scale — 1M tokens (50/50 input/output)

VolumeLlama 4 MaverickLlama Nemotron Ultra 253BSavings
1M tokens $0.38 $2.1 $1.73 (82.4%)
10M tokens $3.75 $21 $17.25 (82.1%)
100M tokens $37.5 $210 $172.5 (82.1%)
1000M tokens $375 $2100 $1725 (82.1%)

Summary

Llama 4 Maverick by DeepInfra costs $0.150/Mtok input and $0.600/Mtok output, with a 1M-token context window. It supports text, image input.

Llama Nemotron Ultra 253B by NVIDIA costs $0.600/Mtok input and $3.60/Mtok output, with a 128K-token context window. It supports text input.

On a blended cost basis, Llama 4 Maverick is 82.1% cheaper than Llama Nemotron Ultra 253B. It also has a larger context window.

On benchmarks, Llama Nemotron Ultra 253B scores higher (70 vs 65.1) on average. In terms of value, Llama 4 Maverick has better performance per dollar (173.6 vs 33.3).

Note: Pricing is per million tokens. Actual costs vary with usage patterns, prompt caching, and batch discounts. Always verify against official provider pricing pages.