Best LLMs for Game Development — Meta
The best Meta model for game development is Llama 4 Maverick, rated 882 on Design Arena's game-dev board for playable games and game mechanics. Llama 4 Scout (817) is next.
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llama-4-maverickToolsJSONVision14.3 intel · $0.200/M · 107 t/s882Elo - 2llama-4-scoutToolsJSONVision10.0 intel · $0.100/M · 121 t/s817Elo
How this is ranked
AI models ranked by Design Arena Elo in the game-development category — building playable games and game mechanics, judged head-to-head by humans. Games are the hardest kind of generated code to fake: the result either runs and plays or it doesn't, which makes this ranking unusually honest about a model's ability to hold state, physics and a game loop together.
Frequently asked
What is the best Meta model for game development?
The best Meta model for game development is Llama 4 Maverick, rated 882 on Design Arena's game-dev board for playable games and game mechanics. Llama 4 Scout (817) is next.
What's a good alternative to Llama 4 Maverick?
Llama 4 Scout (817) is the closest alternative on this metric. See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.
How many Meta models are there?
modelgrep tracks 8 Meta models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Llama 4 Maverick. 2 of them qualify for this ranking.