Llama 4 Maverick vs Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Llama 4 against the 3.3 workhorse a huge install base still runs.
What the numbers say
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is about 2.2x cheaper on output tokens (3.5 vs 7.7 credits per 1M).
- Llama 4 Maverick accepts images; Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is text-only.
- Llama 4 Maverick is the newer release (April 2025 vs December 2024).
Derived from the live registry Zeplik routes and bills against. Credits: 1 credit = $0.10, raw provider rate with a 1.10x margin.
Side by side
Llama 4 Maverick
Meta
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...
- Provider
- Meta
- Context window
- 128K tokens
- Input price
- 2.2 credits / 1M tokens ($0.20 raw)
- Output price
- 7.7 credits / 1M tokens ($0.70 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- Yes
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Best for
- Everyday chat and drafting on an open-weight model with transparent lineage
- Working with images: screenshots, charts, photos and scanned documents alongside text
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction tuned generative model in 70B (text in/text out). The Llama 3.3 instruction tuned text only model...
- Provider
- Meta
- Context window
- 131K tokens
- Input price
- 1.1 credits / 1M tokens ($0.10 raw)
- Output price
- 3.5 credits / 1M tokens ($0.32 raw)
- Vision (image input)
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Extended reasoning
- No
Best for
- Everyday chat and drafting on an open-weight model with transparent lineage
- Tool use and agents: reliably calls functions, so it can search, run skills and drive workflows
Try Llama 4 Maverick on Zeplik
The honest answer to most model debates is to run your own prompt. Of these two, Llama 4 Maverick is the row Zeplik offers, so start there and switch models mid-conversation whenever you want a second read.
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