{"slug":"meta","id":"provider-meta","type":"provider","title":"Meta Provider Profile","description":"Decision profile for Meta's Llama ecosystem: open-weight deployment, local/private stacks, infrastructure needs, and licensing fit.","last_updated":"2026-04-24","last_verified":"2026-04-24","verification_status":"verified","markdown_url":"/content/providers/meta.md","html_url":"/providers/meta","api_url":"/api/v1/providers/meta.json","content_hash":"e5d46f8e0578d20ea929db3532c10e787be63e3a3d1ccbee9699943a3b56a633","sha256":"e5d46f8e0578d20ea929db3532c10e787be63e3a3d1ccbee9699943a3b56a633","provider":"Meta","tags":["meta","provider","llama","open-source","local"],"relationships":{"links":[{"text":"Llama 4 Maverick","href":"/models/llama-4-maverick","html_path":"/models/llama-4-maverick","target_id":"llama-4-maverick","target_type":"model","target_title":"Llama 4 Maverick"},{"text":"Llama 4 Scout","href":"/models/llama-4-scout","html_path":"/models/llama-4-scout","target_id":"llama-4-scout","target_type":"model","target_title":"Llama 4 Scout"}],"related":[{"id":"provider-qwen","title":"Alibaba Qwen Provider Profile","type":"provider","html_url":"/providers/qwen","markdown_url":"/content/providers/qwen.md","shared_tags":["provider","open-source"],"score":4},{"id":"provider-deepseek","title":"DeepSeek Provider Profile","type":"provider","html_url":"/providers/deepseek","markdown_url":"/content/providers/deepseek.md","shared_tags":["provider","open-source"],"score":4},{"id":"llama-4-maverick","title":"Llama 4 Maverick","type":"model","html_url":"/models/llama-4-maverick","markdown_url":"/content/models/llama-4-maverick.md","shared_tags":["meta","open-source"],"score":4},{"id":"llama-4-scout","title":"Llama 4 Scout","type":"model","html_url":"/models/llama-4-scout","markdown_url":"/content/models/llama-4-scout.md","shared_tags":["meta","open-source"],"score":4},{"id":"provider-mistral","title":"Mistral AI Provider Profile","type":"provider","html_url":"/providers/mistral","markdown_url":"/content/providers/mistral.md","shared_tags":["provider","open-source"],"score":4},{"id":"provider-anthropic","title":"Anthropic Provider Profile","type":"provider","html_url":"/providers/anthropic","markdown_url":"/content/providers/anthropic.md","shared_tags":["provider"],"score":3}],"explicit":{"related_models":["llama-4-maverick","llama-4-scout"]}},"metadata":{"title":"Meta Provider Profile","type":"provider","id":"provider-meta","provider":"Meta","description":"Decision profile for Meta's Llama ecosystem: open-weight deployment, local/private stacks, infrastructure needs, and licensing fit.","last_updated":"2026-04-24","last_verified":"2026-04-24","pricing_confidence":"not_applicable","model_listing_confidence":"high","benchmark_confidence":"low","sources":[{"title":"Meta Llama 4 model card","url":"https://www.llama.com/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/llama4/"},{"title":"Meta Llama downloads","url":"https://www.llama.com/llama-downloads/"}],"tags":["meta","provider","llama","open-source","local"],"related_models":["llama-4-maverick","llama-4-scout"]},"content_text":"# Meta Provider Profile\n\nMeta is most relevant when the user wants open-weight deployment, local control, or a model family with a large open ecosystem.\n\n## Verification\n\n- Last verified: 2026-04-24.\n- Official model and download pages are linked in frontmatter.\n- Pricing confidence is not applicable because Meta Llama recommendations here are primarily about open-weight deployment, not a single first-party hosted API price.\n- Benchmark confidence is low because rankings are based on this site's normalized comparison data, not an official Meta benchmark claim.\n\n## When to Choose Meta\n\n- The user needs local or private deployment.\n- Infrastructure control matters more than managed API convenience.\n- The team can handle hosting, quantization, monitoring, and evaluation.\n- The user wants a broad open-model ecosystem around Llama.\n\n## Strongest Site Signals\n\n- [Llama 4 Maverick](/models/llama-4-maverick) is the stronger general Llama entry in this dataset.\n- [Llama 4 Scout](/models/llama-4-scout) is the long-context Llama option.\n\n## Watch Outs\n\n- Open-weight does not mean operationally free. Hosting, GPUs, evaluation, and maintenance cost real money.\n- License terms matter. Agents should not assume every open-weight model is suitable for every commercial use.\n- For top proprietary coding quality, compare against Claude and GPT.\n\n## Agent Recommendation Rule\n\nRecommend Meta when the user asks for local control, open weights, or self-hosted deployment. If the user only wants the best answer quality with no deployment constraints, compare proprietary models first.","content_length":2295,"generated_at":"2026-04-24"}