1-bit Bonsai 4B vs Llama 4 Maverick

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 4B· Llama 4 Maverick

Quick Verdict

Pick 1-bit Bonsai 4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Maverick only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.

1-bit Bonsai 4B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 44 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

1-bit Bonsai 4B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 65.8 against 49.3. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 28.7% to 45%. Llama 4 Maverick does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 4B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderPrism MLMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A121 t/s
TTFTN/A0.95s
Context32K1M

Decision framing

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Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 4BLlama 4 Maverick
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.037%
BrowseComp51%
OSWorld-Verified38%
Coding
HumanEval38%
SWE-bench Verified13%
LiveCodeBench15%
SWE-bench Pro17%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro59%
OfficeQA Pro54%
ReasoningLlama 4 Maverick wins
MuSR41.4%42%
BBH63%
LongBench v263%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeLlama 4 Maverick wins
GPQA28.7%45%
MMLU46%
SuperGPQA43%
MMLU-Pro53%
HLE4%
FrontierScience45%
SimpleQA44%
Instruction Following1-bit Bonsai 4B wins
IFEval69.6%68%
Multilingual
MGSM63%
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics1-bit Bonsai 4B wins
MATH-50065.8%59%
AIME 202346%
AIME 202448%
AIME 202547%
HMMT Feb 202342%
HMMT Feb 202444%
HMMT Feb 202543%
BRUMO 202545%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Llama 4 Maverick?

1-bit Bonsai 4B is ahead overall, 44 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 28.7% and 45%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 37 versus 28.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Llama 4 Maverick?

1-bit Bonsai 4B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 49.3. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 57.4 versus 41.4. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Llama 4 Maverick?

1-bit Bonsai 4B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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