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Llama 4 Maverick vs Sonar

List-price comparison ·Llama 4 Maverick details ·Sonar details

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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 MaverickSonar
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 window1,048,576 tokens127,072 tokens
Max output16,384 tokens
Quality score74/10074/100
TierBalancedBalanced
ProviderMetaPerplexity

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moLlama 4 MaverickSonar
1,000$0.56$1.60
10,000$5.60$16.00
100,000$56.00$160.00
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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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