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Llama 4 Maverick vs Sonar
List-price comparison ·Llama 4 Maverick details ·Sonar details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Llama 4 Maverick is the cheapest — 65% less than the priciest here ($56.00/mo vs $160.00/mo).
| Llama 4 Maverick | Sonar | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.200 | $1.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $0.800 | $1.00 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0006 | $0.0016 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 127,072 tokens |
| Max output | 16,384 tokens | — |
| Quality score | 74/100 | 74/100 |
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Provider | Meta | Perplexity |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Llama 4 Maverick | Sonar |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $0.56 | $1.60 |
| 10,000 | $5.60 | $16.00 |
| 100,000 | $56.00 | $160.00 |
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.
Sonar
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.