Meta: Llama 4 Maverick API Pricing
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.188 per 1M input tokens and $0.652 per 1M output tokens (cache reads: $0.050). Context window: 524K. Prices verified 2026-10-21 · source
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Token economics
| Token type | Price | vs base input |
|---|---|---|
| Standard input | $0.188 | — |
| Cache read | $0.050 | −73% |
| Output | $0.652 | — |
Prompt caching stores repeated context server-side: reads cost far less, but writes carry a one-time premium.
Training data ends here — newer events require retrieval or web search.
What would Meta: Llama 4 Maverick cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $4.11 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $14.03 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $32.29 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $8.80 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About Meta: Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward...
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Meta: Llama 4 Maverick cost?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.188 per 1M input tokens and $0.652 per 1M output tokens; cached input tokens cost $0.050 per 1M. Verified 2026-10-21 — provider source.
What is the context window?
524K tokens, with up to 16K output tokens per response. That's roughly 655 pages of text in a single request.
Does it support prompt caching?
Yes — cached input is $0.050/1M, about 73% cheaper than standard input. Agents and RAG workloads with repeated context benefit most.
What's a cheaper alternative?
ScaleDown: Summarize saves about 91% on a typical workload with comparable quality.
Official resources
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