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  5. Claude Opus 5vsLlama 4 Maverick
Updated Jul 2026

Claude Opus 5vsLlama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper than Claude Opus 5 at $1.5/M vs $5/M input tokens.

Claude Opus 5 and Llama 4 Maverick compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude Opus 5Llama 4 Maverick
Input price$5/M tokens$1.5/M tokens
Output price$25/M tokens$2.5/M tokens
Context window1.0M tokens1.0M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedJul 2026Apr 2025
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5
Llama 4 Maverick
Llama 4 Maverick

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, nothing separates them.

Llama 4 Maverick costs 10x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Opus 5
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.

Where to run it

9 hosts, cheapest first

Claude Opus 54 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% upAzure AI Foundry$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·99.9% upAnthropic$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$5.00 in·$25.00 out·1M·99.9% up
Llama 4 Maverick5 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDigitalOcean$0.20 in·$0.70 out·128k·99.9% upDDeepInfrafp8$0.20 in·$0.80 out·1M·99.8% upNNovitafp8$0.27 in·$0.85 out·1M·99.4% upPParasailfp8$0.35 in·$1.00 out·524k·99.8% upGoogle Vertex AI$0.35 in·$1.15 out·524k·97.9% up

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

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
62%

Claude Opus 5 uses 1.7x more emoji

Claude Opus 5
Llama 4 Maverick
54%Vocabulary49%
21wSentence Length20w
0.40Hedging0.63
3.9Bold2.8
1.9Lists3.8
0.02Emoji0.00
0.71Headings0.65
0.05Transitions0.09
Based on 27 + 26 text responses
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