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  5. Claude Sonnet 4vsLlama 4 Scout
Updated May 2025

Claude Sonnet 4vsLlama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4 at $0.25/M vs $3/M input tokens.

Claude Sonnet 4 and Llama 4 Scout compared across 53 shared prompts
SpecClaude Sonnet 4Llama 4 Scout
Input price$3/M tokens$0.25/M tokens
Output price$15/M tokens$0.5/M tokens
Context window200K tokens10.0M tokens
ParametersNot disclosed17B active (109B total)
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMay 2025Apr 2025
SWE-bench Verified72.7%54.6%
Our Verdict
Claude Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 ScoutRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, Claude Sonnet 4 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer.

Llama 4 Scout costs 30x less per token.

Too close to call
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude Sonnet 4
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Llama 4 Scout
Input
$0.25
12× cheaper
Output
$0.50
30× cheaper

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper on both: 12× input, 30× output.

Where to run it

5 hosts, cheapest first

Claude Sonnet 42 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$3.00 in·$15.00 out·200k·100% upGoogle Vertex AI$3.00 in·$15.00 out·1M—
Llama 4 Scout3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp8$0.10 in·$0.30 out·328k·99.9% upNNovitabf16$0.18 in·$0.59 out·131k·99.8% upGoogle Vertex AI$0.25 in·$0.70 out·1.3M·99.1% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 9 Sep 2026.

Writing DNA

Style Comparison

Similarity
45%

Claude Sonnet 4 uses 70.1x more emoji

Claude Sonnet 4
Llama 4 Scout
64%Vocabulary50%
81wSentence Length28w
0.56Hedging0.48
4.5Bold2.9
6.6Lists4.4
0.70Emoji0.00
1.59Headings0.26
0.20Transitions0.05
Based on 28 + 27 text responses
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