Llama 4 Maverick
the model that taught everyone to read licences, still carrying a user cap, a naming mandate and a litigation kill-switch.
meta calls it open source and it is not, by the definition's own terms — and after fifteen months it has been overtaken by models with cleaner licences and better scores.
the llama 4 community licence carries four things worth knowing. any product above 700 million monthly active users needs a separate licence from meta. you must display 'built with llama', and any derivative model's name must begin with 'llama'. meta's acceptable use policy is incorporated by reference. and your rights terminate automatically if you bring ip litigation against meta over the model or its outputs.
the benchmark history compounds it. meta submitted a differently-tuned, unreleased experimental checkpoint to lmarena in april 2025 that scored far above the weights it actually published — yann lecun acknowledged in january 2026 that 'results were fudged a little bit'. trackers now disagree wildly, with one aggregator placing it 205th of 215.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- open-weight llms
- pricing
- free (llama 4 community licence)
- website
- huggingface.co
meta calls it open source and it is not, by the definition's own terms — and after fifteen months it has been overtaken by models with cleaner licences and better scores.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.