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Llama 4 Behemoth

Open-Weights · Meta · Meta AI · Released Apr 2025
A-

Excellent (A-) — Capability Grade

Llama 4 Behemoth is Meta's largest open-weights model — the first frontier-class model released with open weights. Strong reasoning benchmarks; multimodal (text + vision). License has commercial restrictions for very large operators (>700M MAU). Hosted by major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

88
Composite / 100
/ Subscore Breakdown · 6 Capability Dimensions

Where this grade comes from.

General Reasoning
A-
Code Generation
B+
Math & STEM
B+
Tool Use & Agency
B
Multimodal
B+
Safety & Alignment
B
/ Key Events & Disclosures

Release timeline & positioning.

  • Released Apr 2025
  • First frontier-class open-weights release
  • Llama 4 Community License
  • Multi-cloud distribution

/ Best for

Enterprises requiring on-premise deployment, fine-tuning, or sovereign-AI capability with frontier-tier base capability.

/ Watch out for

License has commercial restrictions for very large operators. Inference infrastructure cost is non-trivial; the 'free' is in weights, not compute.