Side-by-side comparison of DeepSeek-V4-Pro (DeepSeek · China) and Llama 4 Maverick (Meta · USA) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. DeepSeek-V4-Pro is rated conditional; Llama 4 Maverick is conditional. They part ways on licence: DeepSeek-V4-Pro is "MIT", Llama 4 Maverick is "Llama community".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | Conditional Per the published LICENSE file, DeepSeek-V4-Pro ships under MIT with no commercial restrictions, so the weights themselves are deployable. The caveats are non-EU jurisdiction and a training corpus described only by aggregate token count (32T+) without a dataset list — both should be documented in any GDPR or AI Act compliance file before regulated use. | Conditional Llama 4 flagship: MoE with 17B active over 128 experts, natively multimodal (text + images). Same Llama community licence as the family: 700M MAU cap, acceptable-use policy, 'Built with Llama' attribution. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-28 | 2026-04-15 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | MIT | Llama community |
| Commercial use | Unrestricted | With caps |
| Training data | Categories only | Undisclosed |
| Origin | China | USA |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 52/100 | 18/100 |
| Speed | 36 tok/s | 116 tok/s |
| Blended price | $2.17/M | $0.50/M |
| Context window | — | — |
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