Models

DeepSeek V4 Flash vs Llama 4 Maverick

Compare DeepSeek V4 Flash from DeepSeek and Llama 4 Maverick from Llama on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · text → text

(This model currently points to the older 0423 version; if you need to request the latest version, you can choose the model deepseek-v4-flash-0731)DeepSeek-V4 features an ultra-long context of one million characters and achieves leading performance domestically and in the open-source domain in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning.

Input$0.142 /M
Output$0.284 /M
Cache read$0.0284 /M
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Llama 4 Maverick
Llama · text, image → text

Llama 4 Maverick is a high-capacity Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model from Meta, featuring 400B total parameters and 128 experts, while activating an efficient 17B parameters per inference. Engineered for peak performance, it excels at advanced multimodal tasks. Maverick natively supports text and image input, producing multilingual text and code. With a 1-million-token context window and instruction tuning, it is optimized for complex image reasoning and general-purpose assistant-like interactions. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, Maverick is ideal for research and commercial applications demanding state-of-the-art multimodal understanding and high throughput.

Input$0.2 /M
Output$0.2 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Input /M
$0.142
$0.2
Output /M
$0.284
$0.2
Cache read /M
$0.0284
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Context length
1,000,000
1,048,576
Max output
384,000
32,000
Time to First Token
1.0 s
0.1 s
Throughput
66.5 tok/s
97.8 tok/s
Modalities
text
textimage
Supported Parameters
toolsfunction callingstructured outputsthinking
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
April 24, 2026
April 5, 2025

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
deepseek-v4-flashllama-4-maverick
1280134014001460
Overall
13271436
Coding
13731483
Math
13191426
Hard prompts
13381459
Instruction following
13141428
Multi-turn
13241452
Creative writing
13071408
Longer query
13341448
Chinese
13301473
English
13401445

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

DeepSeek V4 Flash
$12.78 /mo
Llama 4 Maverick
$15.00 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick: $0.2/M output tokens; DeepSeek V4 Flash: $0.284/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

DeepSeek V4 Flash: 1483; Llama 4 Maverick: 1373 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Llama 4 Maverick: 0.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts 1,000,000 and Llama 4 Maverick accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 384,000 tokens on DeepSeek V4 Flash and 32,000 tokens on Llama 4 Maverick.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Llama 4 Maverick at 97.8 tok/s and DeepSeek V4 Flash at 66.5 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

DeepSeek V4 Flash accepts text input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and thinking; Llama 4 Maverick accepts text and image input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call DeepSeek V4 Flash and Llama 4 Maverick with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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