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R1 0528 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 16 results on 3 sources that measured both models.

R1 0528
DeepSeek · profile
Llama 4 Maverick
Meta · profile
Results compared
16
Shared sources
3

R1 0528 or Llama 4 Maverick? The short answer

  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper: $0.42 against $0.92 per million tokens, 2.2 times less.
  • R1 0528 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 13.1 against 10.0.
  • On our business benchmarks, R1 0528 ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge and writing.

At a glance

R1 0528Llama 4 Maverick
Price per million tokens$0.50 in · $2.18 out$0.27 in · $0.85 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$0.92$0.42
Cheapest host, blended$0.91 (DeepInfra, FP4)$0.30 (DigitalOcean)
Intelligence Index13.110.0
Spring Prompt overall––
Output speed, tokens a second–42
Context window163,840 tokens1,048,576 tokens
WeightsOpenOpen
Developer based inChinathe US

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among models available today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. The better rank is in green.

Use caseR1 0528Llama 4 Maverick
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls not measured 141 of 161
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 106 of 195 146 of 195
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 90 of 187 166 of 187

Every shared result

BenchmarkMetricR1 0528Llama 4 Maverick
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4071,317
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,3891,307
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,4181,326
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,3911,314
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4221,327
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,3881,312
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 13.110.0
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 81.3%67.1%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 15.8%4.9%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 39.6%43.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 55.7%50.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 15.9%6.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 36.5%17.8%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 45.0%13.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.320.37
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 42.324.0

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.

Quick answers

Is R1 0528 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

It depends on the task. Among models available today, on our benchmarks and licensed sources, R1 0528 ranks higher for reasoning and knowledge and writing.

Which is cheaper, R1 0528 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.42 per million tokens (three input to one output), against $0.92 for R1 0528.

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