Claude Opus 4.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Anthropic · Aug 2025
The last $15/$75-priced Opus — a 2025 flagship now thoroughly superseded by cheaper, stronger successors.
Meta · Apr 2025
Meta's natively multimodal 400B MoE — the largest openly downloadable US-made model, served cheaply across many hosts.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Maverick works out roughly 72x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 200K for Claude Opus 4.1. 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.
Specs & pricing
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $15 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $75 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 200K | 1M |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Mar 2025 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Aug 2025 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $262.50 | $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 Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Maverick works out roughly 72x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Maverick also takes 1M of context versus 200K for Claude Opus 4.1. 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 Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Claude Opus 4.1 costs $15/$75 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 $262.50 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.