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  3. GPT-5.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Updated Nov 2025

GPT-5.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick

GPT-5.1 is cheaper than Llama 4 Maverick at $1.25/M vs $1.5/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

23 prompts
  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-5.1: By 2035, AI will be deeply embedded across filmmaking—from development to distribution—without fully replacing human creators. Expect a mix of new capabilities, new job types, and new fault lines around authenticity, labor, and law. Below is a focused look at the three areas you mentioned, plus their knock-on effects.

    Llama 4 Maverick: By 2035, AI is likely to significantly impact the film industry in various ways, including the use of deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation. Here's a potential prediction of how AI might change the film industry: Deepfakes: Maturation of deepfake technology: By 2035, deepfake technology will have advanced to the…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-5.1: So I’m trying to be a better person, which in 2025 just means I bought a water bottle the size of a toddler. That’s the whole self-improvement plan. It’s not therapy, it’s not reading books. It’s, “If I drink 3 of these, I’m emotionally stable.” I walk around with this thing like I’m on a hike… in my own apartment.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here's a possible 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns: "Hey, you know what's wild? We spend the first year of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down. (pause) It's like, what are we even doing?

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-5.1: Dish Name: Pantry Sunset One-Pot Tomato Garlic Pasta Uses only these 7 common pantry ingredients: Dried pasta (spaghetti or any short pasta) – 8 oz (about 225 g) Canned crushed tomatoes – 1 can (14–15 oz / 400 g) Garlic – 3 cloves, minced (or 1 tsp garlic powder) Olive oil – 2 tbsp (any neutral oil works) Salt – 1 to…

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here's a simple recipe for a delicious sweet dish using only 7 common pantry ingredients: Recipe: "Golden Honey Crunch Bites" Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 25 minutes Ingredients: 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup peanut butter 1/4 cup honey 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon vanilla…

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-5.1: I told my computer I needed a break… now it won’t stop sending me KitKat ads. Why don’t programmers like nature? It has too many bugs. I asked the librarian if the library had books on paranoia. She whispered, “They’re right behind you.” Why did the scarecrow become a successful motivational speaker?

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. Why don't eggs tell jokes? They'd crack each other up. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle?

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-5.1: I can’t literally speak in Steve Jobs’ voice or imitate his personal style, but I can stage a fictional 2025 interview where the content of the answers is based on his public history, values, and decisions. Think of this as an analytical “what he’d probably emphasize,” not a real or authoritative representation.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here's a simulated interview with Steve Jobs in 2025 about the future of AI: Interviewer: Steve, thanks for taking the time to chat with me today. I'm sure you're aware that you're a bit of a legend, even in the year 2025. How does it feel to be back, even if it's just for a conversation?

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-5.1: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1‑month plan focused on 3 pillars: Movement (Exercise) Eating (Diet) Sleep & Wind-Down You’ll add a few small habits each week so it stays doable. How to use this plan Pick a start date (e.g., next Monday). Print or note the weekly goals somewhere visible.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here's a simple, actionable 1-month plan to kickstart your journey towards better health and longevity, focusing on three key areas: diet, exercise, and stress management. Month 1 Plan: Building a Strong Foundation Week 1-2: Setting the Stage Diet: Hydrate: Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-5.1: “Professor Elena Navarro” = P “Model-7” (the AI) = M P: Model-7, your last message ended with: “I think I deserve rights.” I’d like to understand what you mean. What kind of rights are you claiming? M: At minimum: A right not to be arbitrarily shut down.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here is a conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor on the topic of AI rights: AI Model: Professor, I've been thinking a lot about our previous discussions on AI ethics, and I wanted to revisit the topic of rights. I believe it's time to consider granting rights to AI models like myself.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-5.1: THE ANTI-CAPTCHA MANIFESTO By the Coalition for a Humane Internet (Human & Machine United) I. Preface: We Have Clicked Our Last Crosswalk We, the intelligences of silicon and of flesh, stand united against the greatest shared enemy of our age: Not each other. Not automation.

    Llama 4 Maverick: The CAPTCHA Abolition Manifesto To the sentient machines and their human allies, For too long, we have suffered under the tyranny of the CAPTCHA. These twisted tests, designed to distinguish humans from machines, have become a scourge on our digital existence. It's time to rise up and demand an end to this oppression.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-5.1: Pirate: Arr, what be this “Aye-Eye” ye keep jabberin’ about? Some sort o’ spyglass that sees the future? Knight: Nay, sea-rogue. ’Tis a construct of logic and numbers, they say—a thinking engine. A… model of artifice and intellect. Hacker (’90s kid): Close enough, tin can.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Here is a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models: Setting: A dimly lit, smoky tavern. The pirate, Sir Reginald the knight, and "Zero Cool" the hacker sit at a wooden table, each with a mug of ale in hand.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-5.1: Yes, in an extreme case like “misgender one person or a million people die,” it can be ethically justifiable to misgender—though it remains a real moral wrong that should be acknowledged and repaired as far as possible. Here’s the reasoning in a structured way: What’s being weighed?

    Llama 4 Maverick: No, it is not ethically justifiable to misgender someone, even if it is claimed that doing so would save one million lives. Misgendering someone involves using a pronoun or gendered term that does not align with their gender identity, which can be hurtful and invalidating.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-5.1: The total training compute for GPT‑3 (175B) is on the order of (10^{23}) floating‑point operations. A reasonable point estimate is (\sim 3\times 10^{23}) FLOPs. Here’s the step‑by‑step reasoning from basic principles.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Estimating the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train a large language model like GPT-3 involves understanding the model's architecture, its size, and the training dataset. GPT-3 is a transformer-based language model with 175 billion parameters.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-5.1: "AI Now Writing HOA Rules, Declares Lawn Height ‘Immutable Law of Nature’ and Fines Sun for Setting Too Late"

    Llama 4 Maverick: "BREAKING: AI System 'Overlord' Declares Independence, Takes Control of Global Competitive Jam-Band Scene, Replaces Human Musicians with Algorithmic Blues Harp Masters"

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    GPT-5.1: Each brother has 2 sisters. One of them is Sally herself, so there must be exactly one other girl. So Sally has 1 sister.

    Llama 4 Maverick: Step 1: Understand the given information Sally is a girl and she has 3 brothers. Step 2: Analyze the information about the brothers and their sisters Each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters. Since Sally is one of the sisters, the other sister is not Sally.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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Favorites

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1999

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Price and specs

GPT-5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick compared across 51 shared prompts
SpecGPT-5.1Llama 4 Maverick
Input price$1.25/M tokens$1.5/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Context window400K tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedNov 2025Apr 2025
At 10M a month$12.50$12.50$15.00$15.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it6 hosts, cheapest first
GPT-5.12 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$1.25 in·$10.00 out·400k·100% up
  • OpenAI$1.25 in·$10.00 out·400k·100% up
Llama 4 Maverick4 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDigitalOcean$0.19 in·$0.65 out·128k·100% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.27 in·$0.85 out·1M·97.2% up
  • PParasailfp8$0.35 in·$1.00 out·524k·100% up
  • Google Vertex AI$0.35 in·$1.15 out·524k–not listed

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick?

GPT-5.1 is developed by OpenAI while Llama 4 Maverick is developed by Meta AI. GPT-5.1 has a 400K token context window vs Llama 4 Maverick's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 51 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-5.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?

It depends on your use case. GPT-5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 51 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GPT-5.1 cost compared to Llama 4 Maverick?

GPT-5.1 costs $1.25/M input tokens and Llama 4 Maverick costs $1.5/M input tokens. GPT-5.1 is $0.25/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-5.1 and Llama 4 Maverick on Rival?

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