Claude 4 Opus vs Llama 4 Maverick

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and use case fit.

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Claude 4 Opus

Anthropic

Overall 96

reasoning

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Llama 4 Maverick

Meta

Overall 86

standard

Capability radar

Normalized coding, reasoning, writing, vision, context, and value

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Comparison of Claude 4 Opus vs Llama 4 Maverick
Metric	Claude 4 Opus	Llama 4 Maverick
Input Price / 1M	$15.00	$0.20
Output Price / 1M	$75.00	$0.60
Combined Price / 1M	$90.00	$0.80
Context Window	200,000	1,000,000
Coding Score	97	87
Reasoning Score	97	88
Vision Score	93	85
Audio	No	No
Streaming	Yes	Yes
Function Calling	Yes	Yes
Latency Tier	reasoning	standard
Release Date	5/22/2025	3/5/2025

Claude 4 Opus — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

Best-in-class reasoning
Exceptional coding
Long-form writing

Weaknesses

Highest API cost
200K context only

Llama 4 Maverick — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

1M open context
Multimodal
Very low API cost

Weaknesses

Newer ecosystem
Variable hosted quality

Use Case Verdicts

Coding

Claude 4 Opus scores 97 vs 87 on coding benchmarks.

General Chat

Claude 4 Opus leads on writing quality (96 vs 82).

Long Context

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick offers 1M tokens vs 200K.

Cost Efficiency

Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.80/M combined vs $90.00/M.

Enterprise Use

Claude 4 Opus combines strong reasoning, tooling, and context for enterprise workloads.

Agent Workflows

Claude 4 Opus is better suited for agentic workflows with tool use and coding capability.