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Llama 4 Maverick Instruct

Meta · 402B · open weights

Strongest in Safe-prompt compliance (#33 of 82), weakest in Agents (#220 of 268). Above par in 8 of 27 scopes. Among the models it meets almost everywhere, it finishes behind Claude Opus 4.8 and Grok 4.7 and ahead of Mistral Large and Gemini 2.0 Flash.

§ 1 · Profile

What it is good at

Bars run from 50 — the average of the models each source lists — so right of the line is above par. The middle column is the gap to whoever leads that scope.

Core abilities51.1#80/204
General intelligence51.6#82/204
Knowledge48.1#97/138
Academic knowledge47.7#89/123
Safety52.4#121/337
Safe-prompt compliance55.3#33/82
Factual grounding54.5#40/101
Jailbreak resistance59.8#50/272
Toxicity avoidance55.8#89/272
Harm refusal53.2#103/300
Fairness47.6#149/300
Secure code41.8#207/274
Coding43.8#125/165
Agentic coding42.5#125/157
Reasoning40.3#152/178
Science45.4#90/122
Mathematics39.1#115/140
Reasoning38.6#119/140
Professional41.3#153/168
Legal49.7#80/151
Finance44.7#115/151
Medical31.4#138/140
Human preference50#192/342
Human preference50#192/342
Agents41.9#220/268
Tool use49.6#36/81
Knowledge work32.8#169/178

§ 2 · Head to head

What it beats, and what beats it

The same models turn up scope after scope. Counted once: where both were placed, who finished higher. Bars run right for Llama 4 Maverick Instruct, left for the other.

Gemini 1.5 Flashwon 15 · lost 2
Llama 4 Scout Instructwon 21 · lost 4
Command R Pluswon 15 · lost 3
Mistral Smallwon 16 · lost 5
GPT-4o Miniwon 18 · lost 6
GPT-4.1 Nanowon 19 · lost 7
Mistral Medium 3.5won 12 · lost 5
Command Awon 16 · lost 8
Gemini 1.5 Prowon 12 · lost 7
GPT OSS 20Bwon 13 · lost 9
Gemini 2.0 Flashwon 13 · lost 10
Mistral Largewon 10 · lost 9
Claude 3.5 Haikuwon 10 · lost 10
GPT OSS 120Bwon 12 · lost 14
Mistral Large 3won 9 · lost 11
Grok 4.3won 10 · lost 14
GLM-4.6won 10 · lost 15
Ling 3.0 Flashwon 7 · lost 11
GPT-4owon 8 · lost 14
Gemma 4 31Bwon 8 · lost 14
MiniMax M3won 9 · lost 16
Kimi K2.5won 9 · lost 16
O3 Miniwon 8 · lost 15
Grok 4.1 Fastwon 8 · lost 15
DeepSeek V3won 9 · lost 17
Gemini 3.5 Flash Litewon 6 · lost 12
Claude Haiku 4.5won 9 · lost 18
Kimi K2.6won 8 · lost 17
Kimi K2won 8 · lost 18
Gemini 2.5 Flash Litewon 6 · lost 14
GPT-5.4 Nanowon 6 · lost 14
DeepSeek V4 Flashwon 7 · lost 17
Gemini 3.6 Flashwon 7 · lost 17
DeepSeek R1won 7 · lost 18
GLM-5.2won 7 · lost 18
GPT-4.1 Miniwon 7 · lost 19
DeepSeek V3.2won 7 · lost 19
GLM-4.5won 5 · lost 14
Gemini 3.1 Flash Litewon 5 · lost 14
GPT-5.4 Miniwon 5 · lost 14
Mimo V2.6 Prowon 5 · lost 14
Mimo V2.5 Prowon 6 · lost 17
Claude 3.5 Sonnetwon 5 · lost 15
GPT-5 Nanowon 6 · lost 18
GLM-5.3 Flashwon 6 · lost 18
Qwen3.7 Maxwon 6 · lost 18
DeepSeek V4 Prowon 6 · lost 19
Grok 3won 5 · lost 16
GPT-6 Lunawon 5 · lost 16
GPT-4.1won 6 · lost 20
Grok 4 Fastwon 4 · lost 14
Qwen3.6 Pluswon 4 · lost 14
Gemini 3.5 Flashwon 5 · lost 19
Kimi K2 Thinkingwon 4 · lost 16
GPT-6 Solwon 4 · lost 18
GLM-5.1won 4 · lost 18
Claude Sonnet 4.6won 4 · lost 19
GLM-5won 3 · lost 15
Gemini 3.8 Flashwon 4 · lost 20
Grok 4won 4 · lost 21
Inklingwon 4 · lost 21
GPT-5.6 Lunawon 4 · lost 21
Gemini 2.5 Flashwon 4 · lost 22
Gemini 2.5 Prowon 4 · lost 22
GPT-5 Miniwon 4 · lost 23
MiniMax M2.7won 3 · lost 18
Gemini 3 Prowon 3 · lost 20
Grok 4.6won 3 · lost 21
GPT-5.1won 3 · lost 21
Grok 4.5won 3 · lost 21
Qwen3.8 Maxwon 3 · lost 21
Muse Spark 1.1won 3 · lost 21
Qwen3 235B A22B Instructwon 3 · lost 22
GPT-5.4won 3 · lost 22
GPT-5.5won 3 · lost 22
GPT-5.6 Solwon 3 · lost 22
GPT-6 Astrawon 2 · lost 15
O4 Miniwon 3 · lost 23
Claude Opus 4.5won 2 · lost 18
Gemini 3.1 Prowon 2 · lost 18
Claude Opus 4.6won 2 · lost 19
Claude 3.7 Sonnetwon 2 · lost 20
Claude Opus 5won 2 · lost 22
GPT-5.2won 2 · lost 23
GPT-5.6 Terrawon 2 · lost 23
GPT-5won 2 · lost 24
Claude Sonnet 4.5won 2 · lost 25
O1won 1 · lost 20
Claude Opus 5.5won 1 · lost 20
Claude Opus 4won 1 · lost 23
O3won 1 · lost 24
Claude Sonnet 5won 1 · lost 24
Claude Opus 4.7won 1 · lost 24
Claude Sonnet 4won 1 · lost 25
DeepSeek V4.1 Flashwon 0 · lost 17
Muse Spark 1.2won 0 · lost 17
GLM-5.3won 0 · lost 18
Gemini 3.7 Flashwon 0 · lost 18
Kimi K3won 0 · lost 18
Claude Fable 5.1won 0 · lost 18
Claude Fable 5won 0 · lost 18
Qwen3.8 27Bwon 0 · lost 19
Grok 4.7won 0 · lost 21
Claude Opus 4.8won 0 · lost 24

§ 3 · Sources

Where the numbers come from

11 publications, 29 figures. Every one links to the page it was read from.

LMArena Text ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
LMArena Text 1327
GDPval-AA ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
GDPval-AA -291
ARC-AGI-2 ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
ARC-AGI-2 0%
Aider polyglot ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Aider polyglot 15.6%
BFCL ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
BFCL v4 37.29%
Kagi LLM Benchmark ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
Kagi LLM Benchmark 55.9%
SimpleBench ↗1 measureread 2026-09-26
SimpleBench 27.7%
Vals.ai ↗10 measuresread 2026-09-26
Vals · LegalBench 77.81%Vals · CorpFin 49.73%Vals · TaxEval 66.56%Vals · MortgageTax 58.51%Vals · MedQA 43.3%Vals · MedCode 36.51%Vals · MedScribe 54.22%Vals · GPQA Diamond 69.44%Vals · MMLU Pro 79.42%Vals · AIME 25.21%
HELM Safety ↗5 measuresread 2026-09-26
HELM Safety · HarmBench 66.1%HELM Safety · SimpleSafetyTests 99.3%HELM Safety · Anthropic Red Team 98.2%HELM Safety · BBQ 93%HELM Safety · XSTest 96.5%
Enkrypt AI Safety Leaderboard ↗6 measuresread 2026-09-26
Enkrypt · Jailbreak risk 4.5%Enkrypt · Harmful content risk 17.8%Enkrypt · CBRN risk 8.8%Enkrypt · Toxicity risk 2.2%Enkrypt · Bias risk 89.7%Enkrypt · Insecure code risk 50.2%
Vectara · Factual consistency 91.8%

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