Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 99× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

40.8

Rank #136 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.6

Rank #276 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.6 to 39.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Claude Opus 4.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index40.830.6
Released2025-08-052025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K128K
Max output32K4K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$75$0.65
Results tracked4854

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.3 (#69), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.3 (#318)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
WeirdML45.9%24.5%
LMArena Coding14791302
ALE-Bench674.77172.97
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
LMArena WebDev1390—
SciCode—33.1%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 34.8 (#38), Llama 4 Maverick: 27.9 (#86)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
Terminal-Bench38%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 31.6 (#70), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#337)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
SimpleBench60%27.7%
EnigmaEval7.2%0.6%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431281
DTBench80%61.9%
LMCA37.1%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.11132.2
ForecastBench6257.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
NYT Connections (extended)—8%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles7%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—

Math Llama 4 Maverick leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.0 (#267), Llama 4 Maverick: 24.6 (#256)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%20.6%
LMArena Math14301299
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%0.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 41.9 (#93), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.3 (#196)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond77.3%67%
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%5.7%
Confabulations17.1%22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%8.2%
LMArena Expert14391259
MMLU-Pro—81%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Llama 4 Maverick leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.2 (#114), Llama 4 Maverick: 30.9 (#100)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision—1141
GeoBench—52%
VPCT35%—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.1 (#90), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.4 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14051269
LMArena Chinese14271277
LMArena French14321258
LMArena German14121291
LMArena Japanese13781207
LMArena Korean13811203
LMArena Russian14211286
LMArena Spanish14481293

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.8 (#53), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.9 (#140)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14361267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#60), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#274)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14551280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.6 (#70), Llama 4 Maverick: 39.0 (#247)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14191287
LMArena Creative Writing14121266
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%62%
LMArena Multi-Turn14441289
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 30.6 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 99× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick?

Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper. It lists at $0.19 per million input tokens and $0.65 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 26.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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