Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Anthropic · Oct 2025
Anthropic's fast tier: Sonnet-4-class coding performance at $1/$5 and more than twice the speed.
Meta · Apr 2025
Meta's natively multimodal 400B MoE — the largest openly downloadable US-made model, served cheaply across many hosts.
The verdict
Claude Haiku 4.5 wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Maverick. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Maverick works out roughly 4.8x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 200K for Claude Haiku 4.5. And Llama 4 Maverick is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Benchmark head-to-head 1–0
Specs & pricing
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $1 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $5 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Feb 2025 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Oct 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $17.50 | $3.98 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Claude Haiku 4.5 wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Llama 4 Maverick. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Maverick works out roughly 4.8x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 200K for Claude Haiku 4.5. And Llama 4 Maverick is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/$5 per million input/output tokens, while Llama 4 Maverick costs $0.27/$0.85. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $17.50 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.