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Llama 4 Maverick
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by Meta
OPEN WEIGHTSHOSTEDCODING ASSISTANTWRITING HELPFAST RESPONSESANALYZING DOCUMENTS
RANKED #186 OF 232 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #286 OF 6,567 · VIBE SCORE 5.4 · 1,962 VOICES
A fast text model from Meta built to assist with coding, writing, and document review.
HAPPY7.2
229 mentions
SAD7.8
160 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 1,310 voices
QUIETLY DEGRADING
Recent vibe and chatter are both sliding.
HOW TO USE IT
Open weights. You can use a hosted service, or download it and run it yourself, free.
RUN IT ON YOUR OWN MACHINE
Open weights: download Llama 4 Maverick once and it's yours. No subscription, no rate limits, works offline.
400B total parameters (17B active per token, 128 experts), a Q4 file is about 224 GB
- BARE MINIMUM
Mac Studio M2 Ultra
192 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$4,800 USED1.78-bit Unsloth Dynamic GGUF, ~5-8 tok/s, 8k context
- SWEET SPOT
Mac Studio M3 Ultra
256 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$5,600 NEWQ4_K_M, ~10-15 tok/s, 16k context
- FULL POWER
Mac Studio M3 Ultra
512 GB UNIFIED MEMORY
~$9,500 NEWQ8_0 or FP8, ~15 tok/s, up to 128k context
LEARN HOW TO SET IT UP
- ▶ VIDEO · YOUTUBERun LLaMA 4 Locally on Nvidia 4090 & Intel AMX – Full Setup & Demo!
- ▶ VIDEO · YOUTUBEHigh-Speed Llama 4 Maverick: 45 Tokens/sec on 1 × RTX 4090 & Intel AMX Local LLM
- ▶ VIDEO · YOUTUBETry out Llama 4 Maverick & Scout Models for FREE Locally in Open WebUI
- ▶ VIDEO · YOUTUBELlama 4 Just released. It is COMPLETELY FREE and Opensource!
WILL MY BOX RUN LLAMA 4 MAVERICK?
The three cards above are researched picks. Search the machine you actually have — we only say yes if it should reply at a usable speed, not just load the weights and crawl.
HARDWARE PICKS & PRICES ARE RESEARCHED FROM THE LIVE WEB AND REFRESHED AUTOMATICALLY. TREAT THEM AS BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT CAN YOU ACTUALLY DO WITH IT?
Everyday jobs on each of those rigs: how long Llama 4 Maverick takes, and how good the crowd says it is at that kind of work.
| THE JOB | BARE MINIMUMMac Studio M2 Ultra | SWEET SPOTMac Studio M3 Ultra | FULL POWERMac Studio M3 Ultra |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write an emaila paragraph or two, drafted from a one-line brief | ~77 S★★★★★ | ~40 S★★★★★ | ~33 S★★★★★ |
| Summarize a documenta long report boiled down to the points that matter | ~3.8 MIN★★★★★ | ~2 MIN★★★★★ | ~1.7 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a websitea small landing page, markup and styles together | ~21 MIN★★★★★ | ~11 MIN★★★★★ | ~8.9 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a backendan API with routes, storage and tests | ~64 MIN★★★★★ | ~33 MIN★★★★★ | ~28 MIN★★★★★ |
| Build a gamea playable browser game in one file | ~38 MIN★★★★★ | ~20 MIN★★★★★ | ~17 MIN★★★★★ |
STARS ARE THE COMMUNITY SCORE FOR THAT KIND OF WORK, DOCKED FOR HOW SQUASHED THE WEIGHTS GET AT EACH TIER. TIMES ARE COMPUTED FROM RESEARCHED SPEEDS. BALLPARK, NOT GOSPEL.
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users appreciate Llama 4 Maverick for its fast responses and coding support, but many find it disappointing compared to rival models. Complaints focus on high costs, frequent errors, and occasional made-up information.
494 POSTS · 1468 COMMENTS · REDDIT · HACKER NEWS · BLUESKY · STACK OVERFLOW · OTHER FORUMS · GITHUB · X · DEV.TO · LEMMY · BLOG · DEV FORUMS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (3 mentions)
- Answers come back fast (4 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- People find it expensive (14 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (5 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (5 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- PriceA SORE SPOT
2 thumbs up · 14 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- Help with codeMOSTLY POSITIVE
3 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 5 thumbs down
- SpeedPEOPLE LOVE THIS
4 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
- FROM X >
“Meta is reportedly preparing a major Llama 4 upgrade, promising better context and lower hallucinations.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“llama 4 is a disappointment cant even surpass the gpt 4o forget about the new v3 , they are not even in top 20 in the coding wtf yann lecun is taking which kind of drug this guy is taking i wanna take it too.”
- FROM REDDIT >
“AI Explained AI CEO: ‘Stock Crash Could Stop AI Progress’, Llama 4 Anti-climax + ‘Superintelligence in 2027’.”
LOOKING FOR AN ALTERNATIVE?
Checked picks first: tags say why you would switch, stars say how fully each one stands in for Llama 4 Maverick.
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GLM 5.3> SOURCES (12)
- REDDIT · 2026-08-10 · 1705 UPVOTESIntroducing Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Introducing Muse Glimmer: an open-weight model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
- REDDIT · 2024-09-26 · 1002 UPVOTESMark Zuckerberg says he is betting that the limit of scaling AI systems "is not going to happen any time soon", as Llama 4 will train on…
Mark Zuckerberg says he is betting that the limit of scaling AI systems "is not going to happen any time soon", as Llama 4 will train on 100,000+ GPUs and Llama 5 even more than that
- REDDIT · 2025-04-06 · 930 UPVOTESLlama 4 Maverick/Scout 17B launched on Lambda API
Llama 4 Maverick/Scout 17B launched on Lambda API
- REDDIT · 2025-04-05 · 764 UPVOTESwoah
woah
- REDDIT · 2025-04-05 · 665 UPVOTESllama 4 is out
llama 4 is out
- REDDIT · 2026-02-17 · 587 UPVOTESCar Wash Test on 53 leading models: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”
Car Wash Test on 53 leading models: “I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?”
- REDDIT · 2026-01-02 · 529 UPVOTESYann LeCun calls Alexandr Wang 'inexperienced' and predicts more Meta AI employee departures
Yann LeCun calls Alexandr Wang 'inexperienced' and predicts more Meta AI employee departures
- REDDIT · 2024-08-01 · 479 UPVOTESMark Zuckerberg said at Q2 earnings call: “The amount of computing needed to train Llama 4 will likely be almost 10 times more than what we…
Mark Zuckerberg said at Q2 earnings call: “The amount of computing needed to train Llama 4 will likely be almost 10 times more than what we used to train Llama 3 and it will be the most advanced [model] in the industry next year."
- REDDIT · 2025-04-05 · 477 UPVOTESLlama 4 benchmarks !!
Llama 4 benchmarks !!
- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 448 UPVOTESThe release version of Llama 4 has been added to LMArena after it was found out they cheated, but you probably didn't see it because you…
The release version of Llama 4 has been added to LMArena after it was found out they cheated, but you probably didn't see it because you have to scroll down to 32nd place which is where is ranks
- REDDIT · 2024-09-14 · 443 UPVOTESIn another 6 months we will possibly have o1 (full), Orion/GPT-5, Claude 3.5 Opus and Gemini 2 (maybe with Alphaproof and Alphacode…
In another 6 months we will possibly have o1 (full), Orion/GPT-5, Claude 3.5 Opus and Gemini 2 (maybe with Alphaproof and Alphacode integrated), no one is ready for this
- REDDIT · 2024-08-25 · 297 UPVOTESIn the race to bottom for price, significant model intelligence is being compromised.
In the race to bottom for price, significant model intelligence is being compromised.