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Llama

Meta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.

–#12 of 12 in the index
not yet on LMArena
Editorial scoreOur own assessment on 10 of suitability for professional work, price and privacy. This is a judgement, not a measurement; that is why it always sits alongside the Elo. How we measure
7,6
GDPR profileOur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data: EU hosting possible, no training on your data for business use, and self-hosting available. Caution applies to a model with a documented problem, such as an investigation by a regulator. How we measure
GDPR: Caution
Entry price
Freepaid from ~$0.03 / 1M in
Context
up to 10M tokens
Speed
59 tokens/sec
Usage on OpenRouter
1.6% of tokens

Quality over time

15 daily measurements

The line follows the strongest variant of the family; the figure at the top is the measured flagship.

Source: LMArena · retrieved 10 November 2026

Your data

GDPR: Caution
✓Hosting in the EU possible
✓No training on your data (business)
✓Self-hostable (open weights)

Self-hosting gives full data control within your own EU infrastructure, a strong GDPR argument.

GDPR check by profession

Meta's models

Llama is a family. Choose the largest for demanding tasks, the fastest for volume.

ModelTypeEloPrice inPrice outContextBuzz
Muse Spark OpenLatest (open-weight)–$1.25$4.251.048.57637
Muse EmberSmall & cheap–––––
Llama 4 MaverickFlagship–$0.35$1524.2881
Llama 4 ScoutEnormous context (10M)–$0.1$0.31.310.720–

Source: LMArena, OpenRouter, Hacker News · retrieved 10 November 2026

Subscriptions

Self-hostingFreeOpen weights; infrastructure costs only
Meta AI$0Free in WhatsApp/Instagram/Messenger
Hosted API (third parties)from ~$0.03 / 1M inVia Bedrock, Azure, Together, Groq, Novita, varies widely by provider and model size; Meta's own Llama API retired July 2026

Where it excels

  1. 1Open weights, fully self-hostable
  2. 2Fine-tunable on your own data
  3. 3Very large context window (Scout 10M)
  4. 4GPU-efficient (Mixture-of-Experts)

Llama by profession

7 professions where we recommend it, listed first.

The full index on one scale

Ordered by quality; height is our editorial score. Llama is highlighted.

8,69,07,68,98,37,97,77,47,88,48,07,6
#1Claude#2Gemini#3Grok#4ChatGPT#5Copilot#6Qwen#7Perplexity#8DeepSeek#9Kimi#10Le Chat (Mistral)#11GLM (Z.ai)#12Llama

Scale 0 to 10 · editorial score

1Gemini8,62Claude9,03Kimi7,64ChatGPT8,95Copilot8,36Qwen7,97GLM (Z.ai)7,78DeepSeek7,49Grok7,810Le Chat (Mistral)8,411Perplexity8,012Llama7,6

Compare Llama with another

Llama vs GeminiLlama vs ClaudeLlama vs KimiLlama vs ChatGPTLlama vs CopilotLlama vs QwenLlama vs GLM (Z.ai)Llama vs DeepSeekLlama vs GrokLlama vs Le Chat (Mistral)Llama vs Perplexity

What the community says

Muse Spark Open922 points · 479 commentsApple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio365 points · 213 commentsMuse Spark Open, the Most Capable US Open‑Weight Model to Date72 points · 1 comments

Hacker News, last 90 days, praise and criticism.

Tools that run on Llama

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