Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 4 Maverick
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Llama 4 Maverick by Meta AI, in 13 community votes, claude opus 4.6 wins 75% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 57% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6Winner
Llama 4 MaverickRunner-up
Pick Claude Opus 4.6. In 13 blind votes, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 75% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Opus 4.6 particularly excels in Image Generation, Web Design. Llama 4 Maverick is 10x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Llama 4 Maverick
Input
$1.50
3.3× cheaper
Output
$2.50
10× cheaper
Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper on both — 3.3× input, 10× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
55%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Llama 4 Maverick
53%Vocabulary42%
35wSentence Length24w
0.68Hedging0.76
5.2Bold3.7
2.9Lists6.3
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.74
0.03Transitions0.11
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