Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) vs Llama 4 Maverick

Which is better for the money: Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) by Google or Llama 4 Maverick by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

GoogleGemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $14.7

MetaLlama 4 MaverickOff the frontier

Intelligence: 9.30
Total cost: $44.0

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Llama 4 Maverick scores 0.4 points higher (9.3 vs 8.9) but costs 3.0× as much to run the benchmark ($44.0 vs $14.7; both budget class). Pick Llama 4 Maverick when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning).

Metric	Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)	Llama 4 Maverick	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.9	9.3	+4.5% Llama 4 Maverick is 4.5% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$14.68	$43.98	+199.6% Llama 4 Maverick is 3.0× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	57.75s	11.18s	−80.6% Llama 4 Maverick is 80.6% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.02 / $0.10	$0.25 / $0.92
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text, Image

Llama 4 Maverick vs Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning): 4.5% more intelligence, 199.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 80.6% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
Llama 4 Maverick is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.

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