Llama 4 Behemoth
Llama 4 Behemoth
The largest thing Meta will let you download. You will need a rack to run it.
Updated
The read
Behemoth is the top of the Llama 4 family and the teacher model the smaller ones were distilled from. On quality it holds its own against most hosted models; on practicality it is a serious commitment, because serving it properly means multiple high-memory GPUs and an inference stack you maintain. Worth it for anyone who genuinely cannot send data to someone else's API.
Where it shines
- Frontier-adjacent quality on hardware you own outright
- No data leaves your network, which some sectors require
- Enormous fine-tuning and adapter ecosystem around the family
Worth knowing first
- Serving it needs a multi-GPU rack, not a workstation
- Meta's community licence is not an open-source licence
Index score
78.2
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 30 of 53
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Open weights
- Output
- Downloadable weights under Meta's community licence
- Pricing
- Free tier
- Best for
- Self-hosted frontier-class inference behind your own firewall
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
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