Meta · Chat and reasoning · 402B parameters · 17B active · Llama 4 Community License
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Needs 483 GB at FP8 / INT8. The smallest real configuration today is 2× MI325X at Cyfuture AI, $6.21 per hour, about $4,536 a month at 730 hours.
Parameters402B17B active per token
Context1M tokensmaximum published
Checkpoint803 GBBF16, as published
LicenseLlama 4 Community Licensecheck before commercial use
ReleasedApr 5, 2025documented date
Smallest configuration · FP8 / INT8
2× MI325X512 GB VRAM · 94% used
- Per hour
- $6.21
- Per month
- $4,536
- Cheapest at
Cyfuture AI
How much VRAM it needs
Weights plus runtime overhead, then the KV cache that grows with the context you serve.
| Precision | Weights | Weights + headroom | 4k context | 32k context | 128k context | 256k context | 1M context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16published checkpoint | 803 GB | 964 GB | 965 GB | 971 GB | 990 GB | 1,016 GB | 1,170 GB |
| FP8 / INT8estimated | 402 GB | 483 GB | 484 GB | 489 GB | 509 GB | 534 GB | 689 GB |
| INT4 / MXFP4estimated | 241 GB | 290 GB | 291 GB | 296 GB | 316 GB | 341 GB | 496 GB |
| KV cacheone sequence, FP16 cache, included above | — | — | 1 GB | 7 GB | 26 GB | 52 GB | 207 GB |
Cross-checked on Hugging Face Oct 28, 2026: 401.6B parameters in the safetensors headers, 803.2 GB of weight files, attention layout from config.json (48 layers, 8 KV heads × 128). Method: weights as published at the native precision, verified on Hugging Face 2026-10-28; other precisions estimated at 1 (8-bit) and 0.6 (4-bit) bytes per parameter; × 1.2 runtime headroom; KV cache = 4096 bytes per token per layer × 48 full-attention layers (FP16 cache, one sequence).config.json ↗
What it costs to run, GPU by GPU
The fewest GPUs of one type whose total memory fits the model at short context, priced from the cheapest eligible on-demand offer for exactly that count (45-day window, newest reading per provider), with the next providers beside it. Monthly = 730 hours.
| GPU | Smallest config | VRAM used | $ / hour | $ / month | Cheapest at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MI325XBest fit | 2× 256 GB512 GB total | 94% tight | $6.21 | $4,536 | |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 8× 96 GB768 GB total | 63% | $7.78 | $5,676 | |
| Gaudi 2 | 8× 96 GB768 GB total | 63% | $8.27 | $6,036 | |
| A100 80GB | 8× 80 GB640 GB total | 75% | $8.54 | $6,231 | |
| H200 NVL | 4× 141 GB564 GB total | 86% | $10.67 | $7,788 | |
| MI300X | 4× 192 GB768 GB total | 63% | $11.31 | $8,257 | |
| B300 | 2× 270 GB540 GB total | 89% | $11.65 | $8,506 | |
| H100 | 8× 80 GB640 GB total | 75% | $13.67 | $9,982 | |
| H200 | 4× 141 GB564 GB total | 86% | $14.76 | $10,775 | |
| B200 | 4× 180 GB720 GB total | 67% | $16.46 | $12,013 | |
| H100 NVL | 8× 94 GB752 GB total | 64% | $16.48 | $12,030 | |
| MI355X | 8× 288 GB2304 GB total | 21% | $23.60 | $17,228 | |
| GB300 | 2× 279 GB558 GB total | 86% | $26.11 | $19,060 | |
| B200 CC | 4× 180 GB720 GB total | 67% | $36.19 | $26,419 | |
| B300 CC | 4× 270 GB1080 GB total | 45% | $46.31 | $33,806 | |
| A800 80GB PCIe | 8× 80 GB640 GB total | 75% | $50.80 | $37,088 |
Tokens per second, and what a million costs
Chat and reasoning. Speed estimated from memory bandwidth and model size, never measured. The cost per 1M output tokens is an estimate at the prices read on Oct 4, 2026; it is not recomputed here.
| GPU | Cards | Precision | tok/s per user | per 1M output tokens · estimate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MI300X | 4 | FP8 | 51.4 | $1.69 |
| H200 | 4 | FP8 | 66.2 | $2.10 |
| B200 | 4 | FP8 | 88.8 | $2.22 |
| H100 SXM | 8 | FP8 | 55.1 | $2.87 |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 8 | FP8 | 34.6 | $4.29 |
| H100 PCIe | 8 | FP8 | 32.6 | $4.68 |
cards, precision and speed estimated from memory bandwidth and model size; cost recomputed by the site from verified prices · cheapest per output at the prices of Oct 4, 2026: MI300XWhy estimates, and their limits →
