DeepSeek V3 vs Llama 4 Maverick in 2026: 10-2 on 15 real tasks
DeepSeek V3 wins 10 of 15 coding and reasoning tasks against Llama 4 Maverick. Full benchmark results, three judge excerpts, and when to pick each.
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DeepSeek V3 wins 10 of 15 coding and reasoning tasks against Llama 4 Maverick. Full benchmark results, three judge excerpts, and when to pick each.
Mixture of Experts models run only a fraction of their parameters per token. Here's why DeepSeek and Mixtral are cheap, and when MoE gets expensive.
We ran 5 developer tasks through DeepSeek V4 Pro, GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7, and Llama 4. V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 while costing 4.5x less, but latency averages 28 seconds.