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GPT-5 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Updated October 21, 2026. 82 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

Replace GPT-5 Replace Llama 4 Maverick
GPT-5OpenAI
Coding
72.2
Overall
23.0
Output $/M
$10.00
82
Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama
Coding
18.1
Overall
9.3
Output $/M
$0.6525
0
vs boards won of 82 shared

Decision reading

Pick GPT-5 for coding: it scores 72.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick.

Pick Llama 4 Maverick when output tokens cost 15.3x less, or when the context window is larger, 524K against 400K tokens.

Model AGPT-5OpenAI72.2/1003 independent benchmarks$0.39 per solved taskModel BLlama 4 MaverickMeta Llama18.1/1002 independent benchmarks$1.491 per solved task
Shared results
82
GPT-5 only
27
Llama 4 Maverick only
2
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
GPT-5 72.2 from 3 benchmarks, Llama 4 Maverick 18.1 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 68.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
AA Math Index: GPT-5 94.3 against Llama 4 Maverick 19.3, 75.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-5 $10.00 against Llama 4 Maverick $0.6525 per million output tokens, 15.3x apart.
Context window
GPT-5 takes 400K tokens, Llama 4 Maverick 524K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-5BarsLlama 4 MaverickTies
Coding100
Intelligence20
Agentic work10
Reasoning120
Math70
Knowledge130
Web design60
General310
All shared boards820
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index100
Coding benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
Aider polyglot88.0%15.6%GPT-5
SWE-bench Verified74.4%21.0%GPT-5
LMArena WebDev1418Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
AA Coding Index37.816.3GPT-5
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)85.9%47.3%GPT-5
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)69.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)20.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)84.6%39.7%GPT-5
SciCodeNot measured31.7%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)37.9%6.8%GPT-5
Terminal-Bench49.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
GSO-Bench6.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
WeirdML60.7%24.5%GPT-5
ALE-Bench807.6173.0GPT-5
LMArena Text: coding14361301GPT-5
LMArena Text: software and IT14201299GPT-5
LMArena WebDev: HTML1427Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
AA Intelligence Index23.09.3GPT-5
Epoch Capabilities Index150.0132.2GPT-5
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
AA Agentic IndexNot measured0.6Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
τ²-Bench Telecom86.5%17.8%GPT-5
METR time horizons69.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Remote Labor Index1.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
GDPval34.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
BALROG32.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
DeepResearch Bench49.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 32 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index120
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
GPQA Diamond85.6%69.4%GPT-5
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)81.5%71.7%GPT-5
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)85.4%67.1%GPT-5
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)28.5%4.9%GPT-5
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)86.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
ARC-AGI65.7%4.4%GPT-5
ARC-AGI-29.9%0.0%GPT-5
SimpleBench56.7%27.7%GPT-5
Chess puzzles36.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Mystery game puzzles23.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
EBR-bench12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
VPCT66.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14151281GPT-5
LMArena Text: expert14191259GPT-5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14191295GPT-5
LMArena Vision: diagrams12521134GPT-5
LMArena Vision: homework12781164GPT-5
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index70
Math benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
AIME93.4%25.2%GPT-5
MATH 500 (Vals AI)96.0%85.2%GPT-5
MGSM (Vals AI)92.8%92.4%GPT-5
AA Math Index94.319.3GPT-5
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)94.3%19.3%GPT-5
OTIS Mock AIME91.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 355.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
FrontierMath, tier 422.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
ProofBench18.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
MATH level 598.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
LMArena Text: math14071299GPT-5
LMArena Text: mathematical work14051295GPT-5
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index130
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
MMLU Pro86.5%79.4%GPT-5
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.0%77.8%GPT-5
CaseLaw (Vals AI)66.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)61.1%49.7%GPT-5
TaxEval (Vals AI)73.4%66.6%GPT-5
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.5%58.5%GPT-5
MedQA (Vals AI)96.3%43.3%GPT-5
MedCode (Vals AI)49.6%36.5%GPT-5
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)87.1%80.9%GPT-5
SimpleQA Verified50.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
GeoBench81.0%52.0%GPT-5
LMArena Text: science14161288GPT-5
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14131275GPT-5
LMArena Text: legal and government14311286GPT-5
LMArena Text: business and finance14001260GPT-5
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Web design benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
Design Arena: websites1185871GPT-5
Design Arena: UI components1179899GPT-5
Design Arena: game dev1185838GPT-5
Design Arena: data viz1221882GPT-5
Design Arena: 3D1056901GPT-5
Design Arena: all code categories1168880GPT-5
Design Arena: SVG1188Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1140Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index310
General benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)43.7%35.7%GPT-5
MedScribe (Vals AI)83.7%54.2%GPT-5
IFBench73.1%43.0%GPT-5
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)78.2%50.0%GPT-5
DTBench90.7%61.9%GPT-5
LMCA40.0%15.9%GPT-5
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%46.2%GPT-5
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)86.0%62.0%GPT-5
LMArena Text14061287GPT-5
LMArena Text: instruction following13881267GPT-5
LMArena Text: creative writing13651266GPT-5
LMArena Vision12321142GPT-5
LMArena Text: English14091303GPT-5
LMArena Text: non-English13971269GPT-5
LMArena Text: Chinese14221277GPT-5
LMArena Text: German14161291GPT-5
LMArena Text: Japanese14091206GPT-5
LMArena Text: Korean13601203GPT-5
LMArena Text: French14091259GPT-5
LMArena Text: Spanish13991293GPT-5
LMArena Text: Russian14071286GPT-5
LMArena Text: Polish14311275GPT-5
LMArena Text: multi-turn14261289GPT-5
LMArena Text: longer queries13991280GPT-5
LMArena Text: writing and language13841277GPT-5
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13791250GPT-5
LMArena Vision: English12311150GPT-5
LMArena Vision: Chinese12671141GPT-5
LMArena Vision: reading text12461143GPT-5
LMArena Vision: humor12191100GPT-5
LMArena Vision: captioning1212Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1263Not measuredOnly GPT-5 measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing12101099GPT-5
Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 MaverickLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

GPT-5$0.0063Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.0005Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-5$0.092Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.011Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-5$0.350Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.044Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of GPT-5 and Llama 4 Maverick
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-5Meta Llama 4 Maverick
MakerOpenAIMeta Llama
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedAugust 7, 2025April 5, 2025
Context window400K524K
Input $/Mtok$1.25$0.1875
Output $/Mtok$10.00$0.6525
Coding index72.218.1
Independent measurements behind it32
Cost per solved task$0.39$1.491
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-5 better than Llama 4 Maverick for coding?

Pick GPT-5 for coding: it scores 72.2 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick. Pick Llama 4 Maverick when output tokens cost 15.3x less, or when the context window is larger, 524K against 400K tokens.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 or Llama 4 Maverick?

GPT-5 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.1875 and $0.6525. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, GPT-5 costs $0.39 and Llama 4 Maverick $1.491.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick, with 524K tokens against 400K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-5 vs Llama 4 Maverick comparison based on?

82 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. GPT-5's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Llama 4 Maverick's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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