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Grok 4.6 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Updated October 21, 2026. 67 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.

Replace Grok 4.6 Replace Llama 4 Maverick
Grok 4.6xAI
Coding
76.4
Overall
44.3
Output $/M
$6.00
66
Llama 4 MaverickMeta Llama
Coding
18.1
Overall
9.3
Output $/M
$0.6525
1
vs boards won of 67 shared

Decision reading

Pick Grok 4.6 for coding: it scores 76.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick.

Pick Llama 4 Maverick when output tokens cost 9.2x less, or when the context window is larger, 524K against 500K tokens.

Model AGrok 4.6xAI76.4/1002 independent benchmarks$0.82 per solved taskModel BLlama 4 MaverickMeta Llama18.1/1002 independent benchmarks$1.491 per solved task
Shared results
67
Grok 4.6 only
56
Llama 4 Maverick only
17
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
Grok 4.6 76.4 from 2 benchmarks, Llama 4 Maverick 18.1 from 2 benchmarks.
Widest category
Agentic work, 52.4 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
ARC-AGI: Grok 4.6 87.5% against Llama 4 Maverick 4.4%, 83.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Grok 4.6 $6.00 against Llama 4 Maverick $0.6525 per million output tokens, 9.2x apart.
Context window
Grok 4.6 takes 500K 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
CategoryGrok 4.6BarsLlama 4 MaverickTies
Coding70
Intelligence20
Agentic work10
Reasoning110
Math20
Knowledge100
Web design60
General271
All shared boards661
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index70
Coding benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
Aider polyglotNot measured15.6%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
SWE-bench VerifiedNot measured21.0%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
LiveBench coding89.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev1617Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
AA Coding Index76.816.3Grok 4.6
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)88.2%47.3%Grok 4.6
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)95.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)17.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)76.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)44.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)1.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
IOI (Vals AI)47.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)78.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI)14.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SkillsBench (Vals AI)55.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
CyberBench (Vals AI)67.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured39.7%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
SciCode56.5%31.7%Grok 4.6
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured6.8%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
FrontierCode48.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
FrontierSWE25.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
WeirdML67.3%24.5%Grok 4.6
ALE-Bench1508.1173.0Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: coding14661301Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: software and IT14571299Grok 4.6
LMArena WebDev: React1631Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1597Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena WebDev: from an image1603Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
AA Intelligence Index44.39.3Grok 4.6
Epoch Capabilities Index156.6132.2Grok 4.6
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
AA Agentic Index53.00.6Grok 4.6
Design Arena: agents building web apps1247Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps1264Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building mobile apps1234Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Android apps1297Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building Godot games1276Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: agents building games1208Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: HTML slides1249Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: PowerPoint slides1241Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench research84.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench browser64.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench long agentic40.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)53.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)33.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)48.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)62.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
BioMysteryBench (Vals AI)72.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI)11.4%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vals Science Index38.1%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Time Horizon Index (Vals AI)5.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured17.8%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
APEX-Agents65.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Vending-Bench 2$9,047Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index110
Reasoning benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
GPQA Diamond94.7%69.4%Grok 4.6
LiveBench reasoning91.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
MysteryMechanism (Vals AI)30.6%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)Not measured71.7%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)94.9%67.1%Grok 4.6
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)44.1%4.9%Grok 4.6
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)94.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ARC-AGI87.5%4.4%Grok 4.6
ARC-AGI-267.1%0.0%Grok 4.6
SimpleBench75.9%27.7%Grok 4.6
Chess puzzles33.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Mystery game puzzles34.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
EBR-bench30.5%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14481281Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: expert14691259Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14451295Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: diagrams12851134Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: homework12831164Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Math benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
AIMENot measured25.2%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)Not measured85.2%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
MGSM (Vals AI)Not measured92.4%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
AA Math IndexNot measured19.3Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured19.3%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
OTIS Mock AIME99.2%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 366.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
FrontierMath, tier 431.7%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
ProofBench51.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text: math14171299Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: mathematical work14641295Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index100
Knowledge benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
MMLU Pro89.4%79.4%Grok 4.6
LegalBench (Vals AI)86.3%77.8%Grok 4.6
CorpFin (Vals AI)66.2%49.7%Grok 4.6
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.1%66.6%Grok 4.6
MortgageTax (Vals AI)64.2%58.5%Grok 4.6
MedQA (Vals AI)Not measured43.3%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
MedCode (Vals AI)44.7%36.5%Grok 4.6
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured80.9%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
SimpleQA Verified49.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
GeoBenchNot measured52.0%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
LMArena Text: science14371288Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare14201275Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: legal and government14291286Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: business and finance14161260Grok 4.6
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Web design benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
Design Arena: websites1289871Grok 4.6
Design Arena: UI components1294899Grok 4.6
Design Arena: game dev1296838Grok 4.6
Design Arena: data viz1283882Grok 4.6
Design Arena: 3D1277901Grok 4.6
Design Arena: all code categories1292880Grok 4.6
Design Arena: SVG1239Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1278Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LiveBench design79.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index271
General benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 4 MaverickLeader
LiveBench data analysis75.3%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)66.8%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)28.9%35.7%Llama 4 Maverick
MedScribe (Vals AI)86.5%54.2%Grok 4.6
IFBenchNot measured43.0%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)81.0%50.0%Grok 4.6
DTBench97.3%61.9%Grok 4.6
LMCA48.5%15.9%Grok 4.6
Fiction.LiveBenchNot measured46.2%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)Not measured62.0%Only Llama 4 Maverick measured
Furniture assembly40.0%Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
LMArena Text14291287Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: instruction following14311267Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: creative writing14261266Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision12631142Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: English14331303Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: non-English14201269Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Chinese14761277Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: German14261291Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Japanese13781206Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Korean13911203Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: French14551259Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Spanish14141293Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Russian14211286Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: Polish14301275Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: multi-turn14251289Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: longer queries14561280Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: writing and language14291277Grok 4.6
LMArena Text: entertainment and media14211250Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: English12701150Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: Chinese12891141Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: reading text12721143Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: humor12701100Grok 4.6
LMArena Vision: creative writing12621099Grok 4.6
LMArena Document1452Not measuredOnly Grok 4.6 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
BenchmarkGrok 4.6Llama 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

Grok 4.6$0.0050Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.0005Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.118Fits in one request
Llama 4 Maverick$0.011Fits in one request

Llama 4 Maverick costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Grok 4.6$0.460Fits 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 Grok 4.6 and Llama 4 Maverick
SpecificationSpaceXAI Grok 4.6Meta Llama 4 Maverick
MakerxAIMeta Llama
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedAugust 12, 2026April 5, 2025
Context window500K524K
Input $/Mtok$2.00$0.1875
Output $/Mtok$6.00$0.6525
Coding index76.418.1
Independent measurements behind it22
Cost per solved task$0.82$1.491
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Grok 4.6 better than Llama 4 Maverick for coding?

Pick Grok 4.6 for coding: it scores 76.4 on the Vibe Coding Index against 18.1 for Llama 4 Maverick. Pick Llama 4 Maverick when output tokens cost 9.2x less, or when the context window is larger, 524K against 500K tokens.

Which is cheaper, Grok 4.6 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Grok 4.6 costs $2.00 per million input tokens and $6.00 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.1875 and $0.6525. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Grok 4.6 costs $0.82 and Llama 4 Maverick $1.491.

Which has the bigger context window, Grok 4.6 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick, with 524K tokens against 500K.

How many benchmarks is the Grok 4.6 vs Llama 4 Maverick comparison based on?

67 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Grok 4.6's coding index rests on 2 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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