LLaMA 4 Maverick vs GPT-5.3-Codex
Meta LLaMA 4 Maverick | OpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Meta | OpenAI |
| Release date | Apr 5 2025 | Feb 5 2026 |
| Access | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 28%Best | 24% |
Next.js coding Next.js EvalsVercel's open eval of how well AI coding agents build and migrate real Next.js apps — measured as the share of tasks the agent completes successfully. Higher is better. | — | 83% |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | — | 1406 |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | LLaMA 4 Maverick shipped 306 days before GPT-5.3-Codex | |
Which is better: LLaMA 4 Maverick or GPT-5.3-Codex?
LLaMA 4 Maverick leads GPT-5.3-Codex on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). LLaMA 4 Maverick shipped 306 days before GPT-5.3-Codex, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 4 Maverick is open weight, while GPT-5.3-Codex is proprietary.
On BullshitBench v2, LLaMA 4 Maverick leads at 28% vs GPT-5.3-Codex at 24%.
Frequently asked questions
LLaMA 4 Maverick was released by Meta on Apr 5 2025.
GPT-5.3-Codex was released by OpenAI on Feb 5 2026.
LLaMA 4 Maverick is an open weight model released by Meta. GPT-5.3-Codex is a proprietary model released by OpenAI.
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