Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is more accurate: it answered 46 of 78 questions correctly (59.0%) against 34 of 80 (42.5%) for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct. Llama 4 Maverick is more accurate.

Which is cheaper, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?

They cost about the same per question as billed: $0.00053 for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and $0.00059 for Llama 4 Maverick.

Which is faster, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is faster at 42 output tokens per second, against 13. Time to first token: 0.7 s for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, 0.7 s for Llama 4 Maverick.

Which has the larger context window, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick, with 524k tokens against 131k.

Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 4 Maverick: accuracy, speed and price

Llama 4 Maverick is more accurate.

MetaLlama 3.3 70B Instruct42.5% score · #52$0.00053 per question42 tok/s

MetaLlama 4 Maverick59.0% score · #40$0.00059 per question13 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

Llama 4 Maverick is more accurate: 59.0% against 42.5% on the same 80 questions, a 16.5-point gap that is statistically significant.
They cost about the same per question ($0.00053 vs $0.00059).
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct generates text 3.1× faster: 42 tokens per second against 13.
Llama 4 Maverick accepts more context: 524k tokens against 131k.

Which should you choose?

Choose Llama 3.3 70B Instruct for faster streaming and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (9 against 3). Choose Llama 4 Maverick for the most accurate answers of the two, the lower cost per correct answer ($0.001 against $0.0013) and a 524k-token context window. The widest subject gap is in law: Llama 4 Maverick answered 3 of 6 correctly, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct 1 of 6. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.

Accuracy gap -16.5 points (z = -2.07). A winner is called only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.

Head to head

Same questions, same prompt, same API

Measure	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	Llama 4 Maverick	Edge
Verification scoreHigher is better	42.5%	59.0%	Llama 4 Maverick
Cost per questionLower is better	$0.00053	$0.00059	Similar
Output speedHigher is better	42	13	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Time to first tokenLower is better	0.7 s	0.7 s	Similar
End-to-end response timeLower is better	8.8 s	27.9 s	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
Tokens per questionLower is better	855	784	Similar
Context windowHigher is better	131k	524k	Llama 4 Maverick

Side by side

Bars are scaled to the larger of the two values. The winner on each measure is marked in bold.

Every measure

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct first, Llama 4 Maverick second

Verification scorehigher is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct42.5%

Llama 4 Maverick59.0%

Cost per questionlower is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct$0.00053

Llama 4 Maverick$0.00059

Output speedhigher is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct42

Llama 4 Maverick13

Time to first tokenlower is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct0.7 s

Llama 4 Maverick0.7 s

End-to-end response timelower is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct8.8 s

Llama 4 Maverick27.9 s

Tokens per questionlower is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct855

Llama 4 Maverick784

Context windowhigher is better

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct131k

Llama 4 Maverick524k

Score vs. cost per question

Both models in color, every other model in grey

Results by subject and dataset

Questions answered correctly. Small samples: a gap of one or two questions is noise.

Subject	Questions	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	Llama 4 Maverick
Science	30	11/30	18/30
Engineering	15	2/15	6/14
Medicine	11	6/11	5/10
Economics	9	5/9	7/9
Law	6	1/6	3/6
Humanities & social science	9	9/9	7/9
SuperGPQA dataset	50	9/50	23/49
MMLU-Pro dataset	30	25/30	23/29

Specifications and pricing

From OpenRouter's catalogue, plus the leaderboard's test dates

Specification	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	Llama 4 Maverick
Creator	Meta	Meta
Released	6 Dec 2024	5 Apr 2025
Weights	Open weights	Open weights
Reasoning	No	No
Input	text	text, image
Output	text	text
Context window	131k tokens	524k tokens
Knowledge cutoff	31 Dec 2023	31 Aug 2024
List price in / out per 1M	$0.1 / $0.32	$0.1875 / $0.6525
Blended price per 1M (3:1)	$0.16	$0.30
Cheapest host	DeepInfra · $0.1 / $0.32	DigitalOcean · $0.1875 / $0.6525
Hosts on OpenRouter	9	3
Last tested	26 Oct 2026	25 Oct 2026

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Llama 4 Maverick: frequently asked questions

Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct better than Llama 4 Maverick?: Llama 4 Maverick is more accurate: it answered 46 of 78 questions correctly (59.0%) against 34 of 80 (42.5%) for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct. Llama 4 Maverick is more accurate.
Which is cheaper, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?: They cost about the same per question as billed: $0.00053 for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct and $0.00059 for Llama 4 Maverick.
Which is faster, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is faster at 42 output tokens per second, against 13. Time to first token: 0.7 s for Llama 3.3 70B Instruct, 0.7 s for Llama 4 Maverick.
Which has the larger context window, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Llama 4 Maverick?: Llama 4 Maverick, with 524k tokens against 131k.