AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a model from Anthropic, released on September 29, 2025 (API ID claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929). It takes text and image input, returns text, and supports extended thinking.
Model B — Meta
Llama 4 Maverick is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Meta, released on April 5, 2025, with 17B active and 400B total parameters. It takes multilingual text and image input and returns text and code.
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Llama 4 Maverick |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Sep 29, 2025 | Apr 5, 2025 |
| Developer | Anthropic | Meta |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | proprietary | open-weight |
| Context window | 200,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Parameters | — | 400B total, 17B active (mixture of experts, 128 experts) |
| Developer status | Deprecated | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $3.00 | — |
| Output $/M tokens | $15.00 | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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