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| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Starting Price | $1.50e-7 per prompt token | $5/mo (Mini) |
| Capabilities | 6 decomposed | 14 decomposed |
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Llama 4 Maverick processes both text and image inputs through a 128-expert mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture where a learned gating network dynamically routes tokens to specialized expert subnetworks based on input characteristics. Only 17B parameters are active per forward pass despite the larger total model capacity, enabling efficient inference while maintaining high-quality instruction following across modalities. The MoE design allows different experts to specialize in text reasoning, visual understanding, and cross-modal fusion without requiring separate model weights.
Unique: Uses 128-expert MoE architecture with dynamic token routing to achieve 17B active parameters instead of dense 70B+ models, enabling multimodal understanding without separate vision encoders or cross-attention layers. The sparse activation pattern is learned end-to-end during training, allowing experts to self-organize for text, vision, and fusion tasks.
vs alternatives: More efficient than dense multimodal models like LLaVA or GPT-4V because conditional computation activates only task-relevant experts, reducing latency and API costs while maintaining instruction-following quality across modalities.
Llama 4 Maverick processes image inputs through a visual encoder that converts pixel data into token embeddings, which are then routed through the MoE network alongside text tokens. The model performs spatial reasoning, object detection, scene understanding, and visual question answering by jointly attending to visual and textual context. The architecture treats images as sequences of visual tokens, enabling the same transformer attention mechanisms used for text to operate on visual features.
Unique: Integrates visual understanding directly into the MoE token routing pipeline rather than using separate vision encoders with cross-attention, allowing visual tokens to be processed by the same expert network as text tokens. This unified approach enables more efficient joint reasoning compared to architectures that treat vision and language as separate modalities.
vs alternatives: More efficient than CLIP-based approaches because visual tokens flow through the same sparse expert network as text, avoiding separate encoder overhead and enabling tighter vision-language fusion.
Llama 4 Maverick is instruction-tuned to follow detailed, multi-step prompts by leveraging its 128-expert architecture to allocate specialized experts for different reasoning phases. The model can decompose complex instructions into sub-tasks, maintain context across multiple reasoning steps, and generate coherent responses that follow specified formats or constraints. The MoE routing allows different experts to specialize in instruction parsing, reasoning, and output formatting without model capacity waste.
Unique: Instruction-tuning is integrated with MoE routing, allowing the model to dynamically allocate expert capacity based on instruction complexity. Different experts can specialize in parsing instructions, performing reasoning, and formatting outputs, enabling more efficient handling of complex multi-step tasks compared to dense models.
vs alternatives: More efficient at complex instruction-following than dense models because the MoE architecture allocates computation only to relevant experts, reducing latency and cost while maintaining instruction adherence quality.
Llama 4 Maverick generates coherent text by maintaining attention over long context windows, with the MoE architecture enabling selective expert activation based on context characteristics. The model can track long-range dependencies, maintain narrative consistency across multiple paragraphs, and generate contextually appropriate responses that reference earlier parts of the conversation or document. The sparse activation pattern allows different experts to specialize in local coherence, long-range dependency tracking, and semantic consistency.
Unique: MoE routing enables dynamic expert selection based on context characteristics, allowing different experts to specialize in local coherence, long-range dependency tracking, and semantic consistency without requiring separate model weights or attention heads.
vs alternatives: More efficient than dense models at maintaining long-range coherence because sparse activation allocates computation to experts specialized for dependency tracking, reducing latency and cost while improving consistency.
Llama 4 Maverick performs joint reasoning over text and image inputs by routing both text tokens and visual tokens through the same MoE network, enabling the model to answer questions that require understanding relationships between visual and textual information. The architecture treats visual and textual tokens uniformly in the transformer, allowing attention mechanisms to naturally fuse information across modalities. Experts can specialize in text-to-image grounding, image-to-text translation, and cross-modal semantic alignment.
Unique: Unified MoE token routing for text and visual tokens enables native cross-modal reasoning without separate fusion layers or cross-attention mechanisms. Experts learn to specialize in text-image alignment, visual grounding, and semantic bridging as part of the same sparse activation pattern.
vs alternatives: More efficient than two-tower architectures (separate text and image encoders) because visual and text tokens flow through the same expert network, enabling tighter fusion and reducing computational overhead.
Llama 4 Maverick uses a 128-expert mixture-of-experts architecture where a learned gating network routes each token to a subset of experts based on token characteristics, resulting in only 17B active parameters per forward pass despite larger total capacity. This sparse activation pattern reduces computational cost and latency compared to dense models while maintaining model capacity for diverse tasks. The routing is learned end-to-end during training and is non-differentiable at inference time, enabling deterministic expert selection.
Unique: 128-expert MoE architecture with learned gating enables 17B active parameters per token while maintaining total model capacity for diverse tasks. The routing is learned end-to-end during training, allowing experts to self-organize for different input characteristics without manual configuration.
vs alternatives: More cost-efficient than dense 70B+ models because only 17B parameters are active per forward pass, reducing latency and API costs by 50-70% while maintaining comparable capability through expert specialization.
Converts text prompts describing website requirements into complete, multi-page responsive website layouts with copy, images, and animations in seconds. The system ingests natural language descriptions (e.g., 'three unique landing pages in dark mode for a modern design startup'), processes them through an undisclosed LLM pipeline, and outputs design variations as editable React-compatible components in the visual editor. Generation appears to be single-pass without iterative refinement loops, producing immediately-editable designs rather than requiring approval workflows.
Unique: Generates complete multi-page websites with layout, copy, images, and animations from single text prompts, outputting directly into a Figma-quality visual editor where designs remain fully editable rather than locked outputs. Most competitors (Wix, Squarespace) use template selection; Framer generates custom layouts per prompt.
vs alternatives: Faster than hiring a designer and more customizable than template-based builders, but slower and less flexible than human designers for complex brand requirements.
Browser-based visual design interface with design-tool-grade capabilities including responsive layout editing, effects/interactions/animations, shader effects (Holo Shader, Chromatic Aberration, Logo Shaders), and real-time multi-user collaboration. The editor supports role-based permissions (viewers read-only, editors can modify), direct copy editing on published pages, and simultaneous editing by multiple team members. Built on React component architecture allowing both visual design and custom code insertion without leaving the editor.
Unique: Combines Figma-level visual design capabilities with direct website publishing and custom React component integration in a single tool, eliminating the designer→developer handoff. Includes proprietary shader effects library (Holo, Chromatic Aberration) not available in standard design tools. Real-time collaboration uses Framer's infrastructure rather than relying on external sync services.
More design-capable than Webflow (which prioritizes no-code logic) and more publishing-integrated than Figma (which requires export to separate hosting), but less feature-rich for complex interactions than Webflow's visual logic builder.
Framer scores higher at 82/100 vs Meta: Llama 4 Maverick at 21/100. Framer also has a free tier, making it more accessible.
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Enables creation and management of website content in multiple languages with separate content variants per locale. Available as a Pro-tier add-on with undisclosed pricing. Allows content creators to maintain language-specific versions of pages, CMS items, and copy. Implementation details (language detection, URL structure, fallback behavior, supported languages) are not documented.
Unique: Integrates multi-language content management directly into the CMS and visual editor, allowing designers to manage language variants without external translation tools. Content structure is shared across languages; only content is localized.
vs alternatives: Simpler than Contentful with language variants because no separate content model configuration required, but less flexible for complex localization workflows or translation management.
Enables one-click rollback to previous website versions, allowing teams to quickly revert breaking changes or problematic updates. Available on Pro tier and above. Maintains version history of published sites with ability to restore any previous version. Implementation details (version retention policy, automatic snapshots, granular change tracking) are not documented.
Unique: Provides one-click rollback directly in the publishing interface without requiring Git or version control knowledge. Automatic version snapshots are created on each publish. Most website builders require manual backups or external version control; Framer includes it natively.
vs alternatives: Simpler than Git-based workflows for non-technical users, but less granular than Git for selective rollback of specific changes.
Provides a server-side API for programmatic access to Framer sites, CMS content, and site management operations. Listed in product updates but not documented in detail. Capabilities, authentication, rate limits, and supported operations are unknown. Likely enables external systems to read/write CMS data, trigger deployments, or manage site configuration.
Unique: Provides server-side API access to Framer sites and CMS, enabling external integrations and automation. Specific capabilities unknown due to lack of documentation, but likely enables content synchronization with external systems.
vs alternatives: Unknown without documentation, but likely enables deeper integrations than visual-only builders like Wix or Squarespace.
Enables password protection of individual pages or entire sites, restricting access to authorized users only. Available on Basic tier and above. Allows teams to share draft content or restricted pages with specific audiences without making them publicly accessible. Implementation details (password hashing, session management, per-page vs site-wide protection) are not documented.
Unique: Integrates password protection directly into the publishing interface without requiring external authentication services. Available on Basic tier, making it accessible to all users. Simple password-based approach is easier than OAuth or SAML for non-technical users.
vs alternatives: Simpler than OAuth-based authentication for quick access control, but less secure for sensitive data because password-based protection is weaker than multi-factor authentication.
Integrated content management system supporting collections (content types), items (individual records), and relational data linking across collections. The CMS supports dynamic filtering of content on pages, multi-locale content variants (Pro add-on), and auto-publish/staging workflows. Data is stored in Framer's infrastructure with tiered limits: 1 collection/1,000 items (Basic), 10 collections/2,500 items (Pro), 20 collections/10,000 items (Scale). Relational CMS (linking between collections) is Pro-tier and above. Content can be edited directly on published pages without rebuilding.
Unique: Integrates CMS directly into the visual editor with no separate admin interface, allowing designers to manage content structure and pages in one tool. Supports relational data linking between collections (Pro+) and direct on-page editing of published content without rebuilds. Most website builders separate CMS from design; Framer unifies them.
vs alternatives: Simpler than Contentful or Strapi for non-technical users because CMS structure is defined visually, but less flexible for complex data models or external integrations.
One-click publishing of websites to Framer-managed global CDN with automatic responsive optimization across devices. Supports custom domain connection (free .com on annual plans), Framer subdomains, staging environments (Pro+), instant rollback (Pro+), site redirects (Pro+), and password protection (Basic+). Hosting includes 20 CDN locations on Basic/Pro tiers and 300+ locations on Scale tier. Bandwidth limits are 10 GB (Basic), 100 GB (Pro), 200 GB (Scale) with $40 per 100 GB overage charges. Page limits are 30 (Basic), 150 (Pro), 300 (Scale) with $20 per 100 additional pages.
Unique: Integrates hosting, CDN, and staging directly into the design tool with one-click publishing, eliminating separate hosting provider setup. Automatic responsive optimization and global CDN distribution are built-in rather than requiring external services. Staging and rollback are native features, not add-ons.
vs alternatives: Simpler than Vercel/Netlify for non-technical users because no Git/CI-CD knowledge required, but less flexible for complex deployment pipelines or custom server logic.
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