Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 13× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic

61.9

Rank #10 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 10 categories and Llama 4 Maverick in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 87.9 to 26.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 20.6% for Llama 4 Maverick.
  • Llama 4 Maverick is cheaper at $0.19 / $0.65 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $10 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Maverick has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index61.930.9
Released2026-09-282025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.65
Results tracked3254

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 67.3 (#6), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
SciCode61%33.1%
LMArena Coding15131302
ALE-Bench1,819172.97
FrontierCode52.1%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
CursorBench55.5%—
LMArena WebDev1774—
FrontierSWE61.9%—
WeirdML—24.5%
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.0 (#16), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
APEX-Agents75.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 54.0 (#28), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
NYT Connections (extended)80.5%8%
CritPt31.4%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14951281
Epoch Capabilities Index165.03132.2
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench—27.7%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
EnigmaEval—0.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles65%—
DTBench—61.9%
LMCA—15.9%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 87.9 (#6), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025100%20.6%
LMArena Math15101299
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)88.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 480.5%—
ProofBench100%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%
FrontierMath Erdős2.9%—

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#12), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond95.6%67%
LMArena Expert15401259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified46.5%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 51.5 (#6), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision12891142
GeoBench—52%
Furniture Assembly75%—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 55.3 (#30), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14521269
LMArena Chinese15221277
LMArena Russian14511286
LMArena French—1259
LMArena German—1291
LMArena Japanese—1207
LMArena Korean—1203
LMArena Spanish—1293

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 78.3 (#11), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14951267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 45.9 (#28), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14981280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#40), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5.5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14711287
LMArena Creative Writing14651267
LMArena Multi-Turn14741289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—860
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 61.9 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Maverick costs 13× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Sonnet 5.5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 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 Sonnet 5.5 lists at $2 and $10.

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.3 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 32 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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