Models

Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E Instruct

Meta

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Catalogue only

This model is catalogued for reference. It is not hosted on LLM EU yet, and no first-party endpoint serves it here. Requests to it go to the provider directly, under that provider's own terms.

Summary

Llama 4 Maverick is Meta’s larger Llama 4 mixture-of-experts model: 17B active parameters, 128 experts and about 400B total parameters, with a published context window of 1M tokens. It takes text and images and is positioned for general assistant and image-understanding work. Like Scout it ships under the Llama 4 Community License with the 700M monthly-active-user threshold.

Specifications

Provider
Meta (US)
Context window
1.0M
Parameters
401.58B
Modalities
text, vision
License
other · licence
Open weights
yes
Release date
05 Apr 2025
Tasks
Vision, Reasoning, Multilingual support, Summarisation

Languages

Strong: en, de, fr, es, it, pt, hi

Adequate: ar, id, th, tl, vi

Strong

  • en
  • de
  • fr
  • es
  • it
  • pt
  • hi

Adequate

  • ar
  • id
  • th
  • tl
  • vi

Not verified: the provider has not documented this claim. — a language is listed as strong only where a source claims it; the card links the evidence where one exists.

When to use it

Strengths

  • multimodal input with 1M-token context
  • 17B active parameters keep per-token compute moderate
  • vendor reports competitiveness with much larger dense models

Limits

  • about 400B total parameters must fit in memory even though only 17B are active
  • Llama 4 Community License, not an OSI licence
  • Meta’s benchmark comparisons are self-reported

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E Instruct served on LLM EU?

It has no endpoint in the catalogue, so it is catalogue only — not hosted on LLM EU yet, with no region and no retention to report. A card whose status is "listed" is a catalogue entry, not a running deployment.

Under what licence is Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E Instruct released?

Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E Instruct is recorded under other. The recorded licence text is https://www.llama.com/llama4/license/. The weights are downloadable (open_weights is true). LLM EU republishes the licence id and the link and gives no legal advice; the licence text governs.

How large is Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E Instruct, and what context window does it have?

Llama 4 Maverick 17B-128E Instruct is recorded at about 400B total, 17B active, 128 experts (safetensors total 401,583,781,376) (source: https://huggingface.co/api/models/meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct), with a context window of 1048576 tokens (source: https://docs.aws.eu/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-card-meta-llama-4-maverick-17b-instruct.html).