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  5. Claude 3.7 Thinking SonnetvsLlama 4 Maverick
Updated Apr 2025

Claude 3.7 Thinking SonnetvsLlama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper than Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet at $1.5/M vs $6/M input tokens.

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and Llama 4 Maverick compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude 3.7 Thinking SonnetLlama 4 Maverick
Input price$6/M tokens$1.5/M tokens
Output price$30/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.0M tokens
ParametersNot disclosed17B active (400B total)
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedFeb 2025Apr 2025
Our Verdict
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Claude 3.7 Thinking SonnetRunner-up

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.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Input
$6.00
Output
$30.00
Llama 4 Maverick
Input
$1.50
4.0× cheaper
Output
$2.50
12× cheaper

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper on both: 4.0× input, 12× output.

Where to run it

5 hosts, cheapest first

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet

No hosts listed on OpenRouter.

Llama 4 Maverick5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDigitalOcean$0.20 in·$0.70 out·128k·99.8% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.20 in·$0.80 out·1M·99.8% upNNovitafp8$0.27 in·$0.85 out·1M·99.7% upPParasailfp8$0.35 in·$1.00 out·524k·99.8% upGoogle Vertex AI$0.35 in·$1.15 out·524k·99.6% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 8 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
53%

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 2.5x more sentence length

Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet
Llama 4 Maverick
62%Vocabulary49%
51wSentence Length20w
0.62Hedging0.63
2.0Bold2.8
4.1Lists3.8
0.00Emoji0.00
1.63Headings0.65
0.17Transitions0.09
Based on 26 + 26 text responses
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