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MIDRank #5 in llm

Llama 4

by Meta

Open-weights frontier - self-host or use anywhere.

8.2/ 10.0
OUR SCORE

Price

$0.0000 / token

Reviewed

2026-06-05T00:00:00.000000Z

Best for

Self-hosted

Vendor

Meta

Score breakdown

quality

8/10

control

8/10

speed

9/10

value

10/10

ecosystem

9/10

Our review

Llama 4 from Meta is the open-weights flagship. Quality on the 405B variant approaches GPT-4-class on most benchmarks, and the open license means you can self-host with no per-token cost.

Hosted access via Together / Groq / Fireworks comes in cheap at ~$0.0008/1K tokens equivalent. Tool use is improving but lags closed models.

For regulated industries, privacy-sensitive workloads, or sheer cost optimization at scale, Llama 4 is the obvious pick.

Verdict: best open-weights LLM. 8.2/10.

Pros

  • +Open weights
  • +Self-hostable
  • +Cheapest hosted frontier-class option
  • +Strong vendor ecosystem

Cons

  • −Tool use lags closed models
  • −Hosting your own requires expertise

Best for

Self-hostedPrivacy-sensitiveHigh-volume batch

Not for

Cutting-edge reasoning

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