Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper than Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet at $1.5/M vs $6/M input tokens.
| Spec | Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $6/M tokens | $1.5/M tokens |
| Output price | $30/M tokens | $2.5/M tokens |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Parameters | Not disclosed | 17B active (400B total) |
| Weights | — | Open |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Feb 2025 | Apr 2025 |
Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Llama 4 Maverick has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins Web Design and Image Generation. Llama 4 Maverick costs 12x less per token.
Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper on both: 4.0× input, 12× output.
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Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 8 Sep 2026.
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 2.5x more sentence length