Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Compare Claude Sonnet 4.5 by Anthropic against Llama 4 Maverick by Meta AI, in 2 community votes, claude sonnet 4.5 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 42 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4.5Winner
Llama 4 MaverickRunner-up
Pick Claude Sonnet 4.5. In 2 blind votes, Claude Sonnet 4.5 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Llama 4 Maverick is 6.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Llama 4 Maverick
Input
$1.50
2.0× cheaper
Output
$2.50
6.0× cheaper
Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper on both — 2.0× input, 6.0× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
49%
Claude Sonnet 4.5 uses 45.2x more emoji
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 4 Maverick
64%Vocabulary42%
94wSentence Length24w
0.48Hedging0.76
4.9Bold3.7
8.0Lists6.3
0.45Emoji0.00
1.91Headings0.74
0.07Transitions0.11
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Research
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