Side-by-side comparison of Llama 4 Maverick (Meta · USA) and Mixtral 8x22B Instruct (Mistral AI · France) for self-hosted deployment of the open-weight model. Llama 4 Maverick is rated conditional; Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is EU-ready. They part ways on licence: Llama 4 Maverick is "Llama community", Mixtral 8x22B Instruct is "Apache 2.0".
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| Summary | ||
| Verdict | 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. | EU-ready A rare combination of permissive licensing, EU provenance, and credible multilingual coverage — Apache 2.0 leaves commercial deployment essentially unconstrained, and Paris-based Mistral simplifies the GDPR controller story compared with US-hosted peers. The catch is the training corpus: Mistral has never published a meaningful dataset breakdown, so AI Act transparency obligations on training-data summaries land squarely on the deployer. |
| Last reviewed | 2026-04-15 | 2026-05-19 |
| Open-weight | ||
| Licence | Llama community | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | With caps | Unrestricted |
| Training data | Undisclosed | Undisclosed |
| Origin | USA | EU (France) |
| Performance & pricing? | ||
| Quality index | 18/100 | — |
| Speed | 116 tok/s | — |
| Blended price | $0.50/M | — |
| Context window | — | — |
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