Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Behemoth offers 68.1K more tokens in context window than DeepSeek-V3.1. DeepSeek-V3.1 is $4.63 cheaper per million tokens. Llama 4 Behemoth supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V3.1, released by DeepSeek in August 2025, is a hybrid large language model with 671 billion total parameters (37 billion active) that unifies the capabilities of DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1 in a single model. It features a 128K token context window and supports both direct generation and extended reasoning modes selectable via the chat template. DeepSeek-V3.1 targets general-purpose tasks, coding, and complex reasoning under an open MIT license.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Behemoth is a research-scale Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 2 trillion total parameters (288 billion active per inference), developed by Meta as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family. Available only in limited preview, it serves as the knowledge distillation source for Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Behemoth targets research applications requiring the largest-scale open-weight model architecture from the Llama 4 generation.

DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
2025-08-21
Cost per million tokens (USD)
DeepSeek-V3.1
Llama 4 Behemoth
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
DeepSeek-V3.1
DeepSeek
Llama 4 Behemoth
DeepSeek-V3.1
Llama 4 Behemoth
DeepSeek-V3.1
Llama 4 Behemoth
Together AI