Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Llama 4 Maverick finishes one point ahead overall, 26 to 25. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.
Llama 4 Maverick's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 42.9 against 24.9. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU, 88.5% to 46%. DeepSeek V3 does hit back in mathematics, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
DeepSeek V3 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.27 input / $1.10 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Llama 4 Maverick. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Llama 4 Maverick gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 128K for DeepSeek V3.
Pick Llama 4 Maverick if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V3 only becomes the better choice if mathematics is the priority.
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DeepSeek V3
42
Llama 4 Maverick
43.4
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DeepSeek V3
24.9
Llama 4 Maverick
42.9
DeepSeek V3
69.6
Llama 4 Maverick
67.4
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DeepSeek V3
90.2
Llama 4 Maverick
45
Llama 4 Maverick is ahead overall, 26 to 25. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU, where the scores are 88.5% and 46%.
DeepSeek V3 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 69.6 versus 67.4. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 43.4 versus 42. DeepSeek V3 stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.
DeepSeek V3 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 90.2 versus 45. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Llama 4 Maverick has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 42.9 versus 24.9. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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