Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Llama 4 Maverick

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 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's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic

54.6

Rank #29 Confirmed

Llama 4 Maverick Meta

30.9

Rank #282 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 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 leads 66.2 to 26.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.7% for Claude Sonnet 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.
  • Claude Sonnet 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 5Llama 4 Maverick
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index54.630.9
Released2026-06-292025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$2$0.19
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.65
Results tracked5154

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Category by category

Coding Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#26), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
SciCode54.3%33.1%
WeirdML68.8%24.5%
LMArena Coding14831302
ALE-Bench1,463172.97
DeepSWE53.8%—
FrontierCode42.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—21%
Aider Polyglot—15.6%
CursorBench34.1%—
LMArena WebDev1541—
GSO37.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—49.7%
BigCodeBench Complete—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.8 (#18), Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
APEX-Agents54.5%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.3%
GBAEval65.3%—
LMArena Search1194—
Vending-Bench 26,378—

Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 49.1 (#39), Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
SimpleBench60.6%27.7%
NYT Connections (extended)75.1%8%
CritPt16.9%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14611281
DTBench92.5%61.9%
LMCA50%15.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.21132.2
ForecastBench61.157.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—55.9%
ARC-AGI-1—4.4%
Chess Puzzles35%—
EnigmaEval—0.6%
Mystery Game Puzzles35%—
Surface Evolver Bench60%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—

Math Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 66.2 (#27), Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.7%20.6%
LMArena Math14671299
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)65.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
ProofBench77%—
Omni-MATH—42.2%
MATH Level 5—73%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.7%

Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 55.6 (#47), Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
GPQA Diamond90.5%67%
LMArena Expert14901259
Humanity's Last Exam—5.7%
SimpleQA Verified33.7%—
MMLU-Pro—81%
Confabulations—22.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—8.2%
GPQA (HELM)—65%

Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#31), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Vision12741142
GeoBench—52%
Blueprint-Bench 224.9%—
LMArena Document1466—
SpatialViz-Bench—31.8%

Multilingual Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 53.8 (#55), Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Non-English14311269
LMArena Chinese14771277
LMArena French14601259
LMArena German14401291
LMArena Japanese14221207
LMArena Korean14111203
LMArena Russian14511286
LMArena Spanish14371293

Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 76.3 (#41), Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Instruction Following14521267
IFEval—90.8%

Long Context Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#55), Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Longer Query14631280
Fiction.LiveBench—46.2%

Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 5 leads

Claude Sonnet 5: 69.2 (#25), Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 5Llama 4 Maverick
LMArena Text14421287
LMArena Creative Writing14161267
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1794860
LMArena Multi-Turn14541289
Short-Story Creative Writing—62%
WildBench—80%
EQ-Bench 41236—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Llama 4 Maverick?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.6 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's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

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

Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Llama 4 Maverick better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Sonnet 5 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Llama 4 Maverick share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Maverick has 54.

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