Jamba Large 1.7 is the latest model in the Jamba open family, offering improvements in grounding, instruction-following, and overall efficiency. Built on a hybrid SSM-Transformer architecture with a 256K context window, it delivers more acc…
Model details →AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 vs Meta: Llama 4 Maverick
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
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 pass (400B total). It supports multi…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 | Meta: Llama 4 Maverick | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 256K | 1.0M | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $2.00 | $0.15 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $8.00 | $0.60 | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | — | Yes | 🏆 Meta: Llama 4 Maverick |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 better than Meta: Llama 4 Maverick?
Meta: Llama 4 Maverick wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick?
Input: $2.00 vs $0.15 per 1M tokens. Output: $8.00 vs $0.60 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick support?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 supports up to 256K tokens. Meta: Llama 4 Maverick supports up to 1.0M tokens.
Do both AI21: Jamba Large 1.7 and Meta: Llama 4 Maverick support tool calling?
AI21: Jamba Large 1.7: yes. Meta: Llama 4 Maverick: yes.