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Llama 4 Maverick vs Rocinante 12B

Llama 4 Maverick at $0.230 in and $0.920 out and Rocinante 12B at $0.287 in and $0.575 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

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Llama 4 Maverick

Meta

0.19¢

for a client proposal

$0.230 in · $0.920 out / 1M

1.05M context · released April 2025

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Rocinante 12B

Thedrummer

0.19¢

for a client proposal

$0.287 in · $0.575 out / 1M

66K context · released September 2024

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Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.38¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

  • Cheapest input: Llama 4 Maverick at $0.230 per million tokens.
  • Cheapest output: Rocinante 12B at $0.575 per million tokens.
  • Largest context: Llama 4 Maverick at 1.05M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out
Llama 4 Maverick
0.09¢
Rocinante 12B
0.09¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out
Llama 4 Maverick
0.19¢
Rocinante 12B
0.19¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out
Llama 4 Maverick
3.9¢
Rocinante 12B
needs 155K ctx

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out
Llama 4 Maverick
0.9¢
Rocinante 12B
1.1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out
Llama 4 Maverick
$0.06
Rocinante 12B
needs 250K ctx

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output
free$0.18$0.370 tokens250k500k750k1000k
Llama 4 Maverick
Rocinante 12B

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Llama 4 Maverick
Rocinante 12B
Input / 1M tokens
$0.230
$0.287
Output / 1M tokens
$0.920
$0.575

Specs

Llama 4 Maverick
Rocinante 12B
Provider
Meta
Thedrummer
Released
April 2025
September 2024
Context window
1.05M
66K
Max output
16K
66K
Input
Text and Images
Text
Output
Text
Text
Reasoning
Answers directly
Answers directly
Knowledge cutoff
2024-08-31
2024-04-30

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Llama 4 Maverick

Meta

0.09¢

for this task

50% input · 50% output

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Rocinante 12B

Thedrummer

0.09¢

for this task

67% input · 33% output

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All 2, same prompt and context: 0.18¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,805 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, Llama 4 Maverick has the largest context window here — 1.05M tokens.

On price, Llama 4 Maverick is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.19¢.

For images or files, Llama 4 Maverick can read them directly; Rocinante 12B is text-only.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

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Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Maverick or Rocinante 12B?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): Llama 4 Maverick at 0.19¢; Rocinante 12B at 0.19¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

Llama 4 Maverick — 1.05M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Llama 4 Maverick and Rocinante 12B side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.38¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.38¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.

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