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Meta: Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct

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Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct is a language model from Meta released on Apr 29, 2025. It reads text and images and writes text, with a 524K token context window and up to 8K tokens per reply.

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It costs $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.15 per million output tokens.

It supports tool calling and structured JSON output, and its weights are open, so you can host it yourself.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.35 / $1.15 per 1M
Context
524K
Max output
8K
Released
Apr 29, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
Aug 2024
  • Tool calling
  • Structured output
  • Reasoning
  • Prompt caching
  • Open weights
  • Free to use

Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct pricing

USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.

Input$0.35 / 1M tokens
Output$1.15 / 1M tokens

What Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct costs per month

Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.

Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct per month
$38.33
Without caching
$38.33
Per request
$0.0013

Supported request parameters

What you can set when you call Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct through an OpenAI compatible API.

  • Toolstools
  • Structured outputsstructured_outputs
  • Temperaturetemperature

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Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct questions

How much does the Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct API cost?

$0.35 per million input tokens and $1.15 per million output tokens. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.

What is the context window of Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct?

524,288 tokens of input, and it can write up to 8,192 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.

Does Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct support tool calling?

Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.

Is Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct open source?

Its weights are published, so you can run it on your own hardware or a cloud of your choice. Read the license before commercial use.

When was Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct released?

Apr 29, 2025, with training data up to Aug 2024.

Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. The summary is written from these facts.

Building on Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct?

I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.

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