DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 4 Maverick, best Open-Weights Chat Model

DeepSeek V3Llama 4 Maverick
arenaElo13551322
humanEval8682
sweBench4245
mmlu88.585.1
gpqa59.154.3
aime59.460
Price in/out ($/M)$0.26 / $1.03$0.2 / $0.8

Our verdict

DeepSeek V3 is cheaper and beats Llama 4 on most chat benchmarks; Llama 4 Maverick has a 1M context window and stronger vision. For high-volume text chat, DeepSeek wins on cost. For vision-heavy or long-document workloads, Llama wins.

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