Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Llama 4 Maverick
List-price comparison · Claude Sonnet 4.6 details · Llama 4 Maverick details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 4 Maverick costs 96% less — $42.00/mo vs $960.00/mo.
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $3.00 | $0.150 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $15.00 | $0.600 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0096 | $0.0004 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 128k tokens | 16,384 tokens |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
Projected monthly cost
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Strong price-to-performance for production agents: reliable tool use, structured JSON output, and solid coding ability at roughly a fifth of Opus's cost.
Can still misstep on the hardest multi-step reasoning chains where Opus would succeed — budget for occasional escalation to a flagship model.
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.