Claude Opus 4.8 vs Llama 4 Maverick
List-price comparison ·Claude Opus 4.8 details ·Llama 4 Maverick details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 4 Maverick is the cheapest — 97% less than the priciest here ($56.00/mo vs $1,600.00/mo).
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.200 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $25.00 | $0.800 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.016 | $0.0006 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 16,384 tokens |
| Quality score | 97/100 | 74/100 |
| Tier | Flagship | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Opus 4.8 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $16.00 | $0.56 |
| 10,000 | $160.00 | $5.60 |
| 100,000 | $1,600.00 | $56.00 |
Claude Opus 4.8
Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.
Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.
Llama 4 Maverick
Strong multi-modal (text + image) open-weight model with a 1M-token context window — good for self-hosted or fine-tuned deployments.
Smaller completion-token cap (16K) than newer commercial models limits very long single-turn outputs — chunk long generations.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.