Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct vs Mistral Medium 3.1

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

meta-llama · A · Open weights

Params

401.6 B

Context

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30d

9 K

mistralai · B · API-only

Input / 1M

$0.40

Output / 1M

$2.00

AA index

9.2

proprietary · 131.1K context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct	Mistral Medium 3.1
Deployment	Open weights · also via API	API-only (closed weights)
Parameters	401.6 B	n/a — API-only
Architecture	Llama4ForConditionalGeneration	n/a — API-only
Context length	128,000	131,072
Licence	other	Proprietary
Commercial use	Unknown	Per API terms
Languages	12	n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d	9,163	n/a — API-only
Downloads all time	749 K	n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	n/a — API-only
Gated	Yes — accept licence	n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub	2025-04-01	n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens	$0.19	$0.40
API output price / 1M tokens	$0.65	$2.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens	$0.84	$2.40
Cached input / 1M tokens	$0.05	$0.04
AA Intelligence Index	9.3	9.2
AA Coding Index	16.3	20.5
AA Agentic Index	0.6	1.9
Max output tokens	16,384	104,857
API providers	3	1
Tool calling	Yes	Yes
Reasoning mode	No	No

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct $0.84

Mistral Medium 3.1 $2.40

Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct is 2.9× cheaper at list price.

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct · fp16 944.2 GB / 24 GB

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