DeepSeek V4 and Meta’s Llama 4 family duel for open-source supremacy. Both rival proprietary models but use different approaches.
DeepSeek V4
Frontier-level coding and reasoning. Custom permissive license. Strongest on math and code benchmarks.
Llama 4
Meta’s family: Maverick (405B, coding), Scout (10M context). Largest ecosystem of tools, fine-tunes, and community support.
| Dimension | DeepSeek V4 | Llama 4 |
|---|---|---|
| License | Custom permissive | Llama Community |
| Context | 128K | 128K-10M |
| Ecosystem | Growing | Extensive |
Verdict
DeepSeek for raw coding performance. Llama 4 for ecosystem and long-context tasks.
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