Meta: Llama 4 Maverick vs OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro

On input price, Meta: Llama 4 Maverick is ~10.7× cheaper. Verified 2026-10-21.

Meta: Llama 4 Maverick $0.188/$0.652vsOpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro $2.00/$12.00

Verdict

On blended price (3:1 input:output), Meta: Llama 4 Maverick is ~14.8× cheaper ($0.188/$0.652 vs $2.00/$12.00 per 1M tokens). OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro scores higher on intelligence (57 vs 14, Artificial Analysis) — pay more only if that gap matters for your workload.

Pricing

Per-million-token list prices, verified 2026-10-21. Green marks the better value.

Metric	Meta: Llama 4 Maverick	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
Input / 1M	$0.188	$2.00
Output / 1M	$0.652	$12.00
Cache read / 1M	$0.050	$0.200
Blended (3:1)	$0.304/1M	$4.50/1M

Estimated monthly cost	Meta: Llama 4 Maverick	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
Chatbot10,000 reqs · 800/400 tok	$4.11	$64.00
Coding agent5,000 reqs · 8000/2000 tok	$14.03	$200.00
RAG pipeline30,000 reqs · 4000/500 tok	$32.29	$420.00

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Specifications & capabilities

Metric	Meta: Llama 4 Maverick	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
Context window	524K	1.1M
Max output	16K	128K
Vision input	✓	✓
Tool calling	✓	✓
Reasoning	–	✓

Quality

Intelligence Index by Artificial Analysis (independent evaluations, 0–100).

Intelligence Index — higher is better

Meta: Llama 4 Maverick14

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro57

Sources: Meta: Llama 4 Maverick on Artificial Analysis · OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro on Artificial Analysis

Performance

Measured by Artificial Analysis on live endpoints.

Output speed — higher is better

Meta: Llama 4 Maverick140 tok/s

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro80 tok/s

Latency (TTFT) — lower is better

Meta: Llama 4 Maverick650 ms

OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro1,300 ms

Metric	Meta: Llama 4 Maverick	OpenAI: GPT-5.6 Terra Pro
Cost per task	$0.000005	$0.000016

Provider

Infrastructure metrics for the organizations behind these models.

Metric	Meta Llama	OpenAI
Listed endpoints	25	12
Reliability	99.5%	99.9%
Avg latency	420 ms	450 ms
Pricing tiers	standard, free	standard, batch, provisioned

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