Claude Opus 4.7 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Anthropic · Mar 2026
The early-2026 Opus release that pushed SWE-bench past 82% and extended the 1M context to the whole Opus line.
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 24x cheaper per blended million tokens. 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 4.7 | Llama 4 Maverick | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5 | $0.27 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 | $0.85 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Open weights | no | yes (Llama 4 Community License) |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Nov 2025 | Aug 2024 |
| Released | Mar 2026 | Apr 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $87.50 | $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 4.7 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 24x cheaper per blended million tokens. 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 4.7 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- Claude Opus 4.7 costs $5/$25 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 $87.50 versus $3.98.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.7 or Llama 4 Maverick?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.