Meta: Llama 4 Maverick vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Compare these two models side-by-side to help you make the best choice for your needs

Meta: Llama 4 Maverick

Description

Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct (128E) is a high-capacity multimodal language model from Meta, built on a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture with 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters per forward...

Strengths

•Multimodal understanding with text and image support
•Large context window (1049k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Premium

Description

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is Google’s frontier reasoning model, delivering enhanced software engineering performance, improved agentic reliability, and more efficient token usage across complex workflows. Building on the multimodal foundation...

Strengths

•Multimodal understanding with text and image support
•Large context window (1049k tokens)

Best For

Image and document understanding

Feature	Meta: Llama 4 Maverick	Google: Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Provider	OpenRouter	OpenRouter
Context Length	`1,048,576 tokens`	`1,048,576 tokens`
Input Price	`$0.150/M`	`$2.00/M`
Output Price	`$0.600/M`	`$12.00/M`
Vision Support	Yes	Yes
Higher cost	No	Yes
Capabilities	TextVision	TextVision