Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Llama 4 Behemoth supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
NVIDIA
Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 is a 253-billion-parameter model from NVIDIA, derived from Meta's Llama 3.1 405B using neural architecture search (NAS) compression combined with NVIDIA's Nemotron post-training pipeline, which recovers and exceeds the base model's capability after structural compression. Released in April 2025, it supports toggling between a standard instruction mode and an extended reasoning mode via system prompt, allowing the same model to handle both rapid responses and deliberate chain-of-thought tasks. It is the flagship of the Nemotron family, available open-weight on HuggingFace and through NVIDIA NIM for enterprise inference.

Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
NVIDIA
2025-04-07
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics
Llama 4 Behemoth
Together AI
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
Llama 4 Behemoth
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B
Llama 4 Behemoth
Llama-3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B