Llama 4 Maverick vs Claude Sonnet 4.6: Vision ROI

Llama 4 Maverick (400B) vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
Complete Comparison: 1,000,000 input tokens × 1,000,000 output tokens
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🖼️ 1 Image

Complete comparison of pricing, performance, and capabilities for 2 leading AI models with 1 Image.

🖼️ Multimodal Input
Comparison Criteria Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
Meta AI
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic
Calculation Results (Current Inputs) (1 images)
Input Tokens N/A (Special Pricing) 1,000,000
Output Tokens N/A (Special Pricing) 1,000,000
Cost Breakdown
Input Cost N/A (Special Pricing) $6.001548 (rounded ~ 6.00)
Output Cost N/A (Special Pricing) $22.500000
Unit Cost (Audio/OCR) $0.000000 $0.000000
Service Fees $0.000000 $0.000000
Total Cost $1.120070 Best Value $28.501548 (rounded ~ 28.50) Most Expensive
Processing Time 1 hour, 28 minutes, 20.00 seconds Slowest 1 hour, 18 minutes, 31.00 seconds Fastest
Tokens per Second N/A (Special Pricing) 450
Time to First Token 150ms Best 200ms Worst
Cost per 1K tokens N/A (Special Pricing) $0.014249 (rounded ~ 0.01)
Tokens per Dollar N/A (Special Pricing) 70,181
Cost per 1 Million Tokens (Informational)
Input Cost / 1M (Base) N/A (Special Pricing) $6.000000
Output Cost / 1M (Base) N/A (Special Pricing) $22.500000
Input Cost / 1M (Optimized) N/A (Special Pricing) $6.000000
Optimizations: No optimizations applied
Output Cost / 1M (Optimized) N/A (Special Pricing) $22.500000
Optimizations: No optimizations applied
Capabilities & Advanced Features
Images Support
1
✓ Supported ✓ Supported
Caching Support ✗ Not Supported ✓ Supported
Batch API Support ✓ Supported ✓ Supported
Tool Usage Support ✓ Supported ✓ Supported
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Llama 4 Maverick
Meta AIMax Context: 1,000,000 tokens
$0.27 / $0.85 per 1M tokens
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Use Batch API (50% discount)
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Provider-specific multipliers applied after all calculations
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Number of requests (max 1M). Summary view auto-enabled >10k.
Will auto-convert to minutes for Voxtral models (9000 tokens = 1 min)
$0.067 per 1,000 pixels

Calculate Token Costs

$1.120070 Total Cost
$0.270070 Input Cost
$0.850000 Output Cost
$0.000000 Unit Cost
$0.000000 Search Cost
$0.000000 Request Fee
$0.000000 Tool Fee
$0.000000 Code Execution
2,000,258Total Tokens
$0.000560Cost per 1K
1,785,834Tokens per $
📊 Advanced Cost Breakdown

Processing Speed

88m 20s Processing Time
400 Tokens/Second
150ms Time to First Token
377 Effective Speed

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🔄 Advanced Options

⚡ Optimization
Flat fee per session (e.g., $0.03 for Code Interpreter)
Hourly storage fee for cached data
First 50 hours free, $0.05/hour after
🧠 Reasoning & Thinking
Apply 1.5x multiplier to output tokens (GPT-5.4, Claude 4.6)
Manual thinking tokens (billed at output rate)
🔧 Special Modes
Enable 4x Tunnel Multiplier (applied after markup)
Enable 6.0x Fast Mode multiplier
📚 Research & Citations
Enable $1.00/$4.00 rates + $10.00/1k search
Enable research tier pricing
Fee per source cited
🎤 Realtime Audio & Video
Session length for billing
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Llama 4 Maverick (400B) Meta AI 1000000

$1.120070
Total Cost
⚠️ Bulk Calculation: Total volume exceeds single-request limit of 1,000,000 tokens. Budgeting mode active.
🖼️ 1 Image (4k) 🔧 Tools
👁️
Vision/Images
✓ Available
🎧
Audio Processing
✗ Not Available
🎥
Video Analysis
✗ Not Available
🔧
Tool Usage
✓ Available
📄
OCR Support
✗ Not Available
📊
Batch API
✓ Available
⚡
Caching
✗ Not Available

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $1.120070 Input: $0.270070
Output: $0.850000
Optimized Cost $1.120070 Input: $0.270070
Output: $0.850000
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000

Advanced Cost Breakdown (from Plugin)

🖼️ Multimodal Input
$0.000000
258 tokens

Multimodal Input Details

🖼️ Images
Count: 1
Resolution: 4k
Tokens: 258
Cost: $0.000000

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 1,000,000 input tokens and 1,000,000 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $0.270070
  • Output Cost: $0.850000
  • Total Cost: $1.120070
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.000560
  • Tokens per dollar: 1,785,834 tokens
  • Context Window: 1000000 tokens

Speed & Performance Analysis

With a processing speed of 400 tokens per second and 150ms time to first token:

  • Processing Time: 1 hour, 28 minutes, 20.00 seconds
  • Latency: 150 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 400 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 377 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

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Visual TaggingImage Sentiment

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic 1000000 🏔️ Context Cliff

$28.501548 (rounded ~ 28.50)
Total Cost
⚠️ Bulk Calculation: Total volume exceeds single-request limit of 1,000,000 tokens. Budgeting mode active.
🖼️ 1 Image (4k) 🔧 Tools
👁️
Vision/Images
✓ Available
🎧
Audio Processing
✗ Not Available
🎥
Video Analysis
✗ Not Available
🔧
Tool Usage
✓ Available
📄
OCR Support
✗ Not Available
📊
Batch API
✓ Available
⚡
Caching
✓ Available
90% savings

💰 Total Cost Calculation (from Plugin)

Base Cost (No Optimizations) $28.501548 (rounded ~ 28.50) Input: $6.001548 (rounded ~ 6.00)
Output: $22.500000
Optimized Cost $28.501548 (rounded ~ 28.50) Input: $6.001548 (rounded ~ 6.00)
Output: $22.500000
Unit: $0.000000
Fees: $0.000000

Advanced Cost Breakdown (from Plugin)

🖼️ Multimodal Input
$0.000000
258 tokens
🏔️ Context Cliff
Premium Tier
>200,000 tokens triggered premium pricing
📊 Cliff Pricing
Premium
premium pricing (threshold: 200,000)

Multimodal Input Details

🖼️ Images
Count: 1
Resolution: 4k
Tokens: 258
Cost: $0.000000

Detailed Cost Analysis (from Plugin)

For 1,000,000 input tokens and 1,000,000 output tokens:

  • Input Cost: $6.001548 (rounded ~ 6.00)
  • Output Cost: $22.500000
  • Total Cost: $28.501548 (rounded ~ 28.50)
  • Cost per 1K tokens: $0.014249 (rounded ~ 0.01)
  • Tokens per dollar: 70,181 tokens
  • Context Window: 1000000 tokens

Speed & Performance Analysis

With a processing speed of 450 tokens per second and 200ms time to first token:

  • Processing Time: 1 hour, 18 minutes, 31.00 seconds
  • Latency: 200 milliseconds to first token
  • Base Throughput: 450 tokens/second
  • Effective Throughput: 425 tokens/second (temperature-adjusted)

Best Use Cases

Visual TaggingImage Sentiment

✨ Market Recommendations AI Model Registry

← Back to Llama 4 Maverick (400B)
📋 Active Input Parameters
Input Tokens: 1,000,000
Output Tokens: 1,000,000
Images: 1 (4k Resolution)
Tools: Enabled
Rank AI Model & Provider Total Cost vs Llama 4 Maverick (400B) vs Claude Sonnet 4.6
🏆 Grok 5
xAI
 $18.000774 Best Value ↑ 1507.1% more ↓ 36.8% cheaper
🥈 Grok 5
xAI
 $18.000774 ↑ 1507.1% more ↓ 36.8% cheaper
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Grok 5
xAI

$18.000774
vs Llama 4 Maverick (400B): ↑ 1507.1%
vs Claude Sonnet 4.6: ↓ 36.8%
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Grok 5
xAI

$18.000774
vs Llama 4 Maverick (400B): ↑ 1507.1%
vs Claude Sonnet 4.6: ↓ 36.8%
✨ How recommendations work (v8.6.0): We scan all active models in the registry and only include those that support ALL your current inputs. For token-based models, we check if they can handle your token counts. For special pricing models (OCR, video, audio), we verify they have the correct pricing structure. Features marked requested were in your inputs but not supported by that model. Now using official provider pricing without reseller markups.

High-Res Multimodal

Llama 4 Maverick (400B) brings frontier vision capabilities to the open-weights ecosystem with a 1M context window. Claude Sonnet 4.6 remains the vision leader for ‘Logical Reasoning’ over images. Use Maverick for high-volume visual tagging at $0.27/1M; use Sonnet 4.6 for complex visual document analysis that requires high reasoning.

Frequently Asked Questions

How accurate are these AI model cost calculations?
Our calculations are based on official pricing from each provider (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Mistral) and are updated regularly. We account for all factors including multimodal inputs, caching discounts, batch API pricing, tool usage multipliers, OCR processing, audio minutes, silence fees, and research mode pricing. Note: Reseller markups and dedicated instance multipliers have been removed to reflect official provider pricing.
How are image tokens calculated?
Images are tokenized based on resolution: Low: 85 tokens, Medium: 170 tokens, High: 255 tokens, Full: 765 tokens per image. Some models (like Llama 4 Maverick) use tile-based encoding with 1,610 tokens/image (standard) or 8,050 tokens/image (high-res).
How do Market Recommendations work (v8.6.0)?
Our recommendation engine scans the entire model registry and only includes models that support ALL your current input parameters (tokens, images, video, audio, OCR, tools, batch API, etc.). It calculates exact costs with your settings and sorts by price, showing you the best value options that can handle your complete workflow. Special pricing models (OCR, video, audio, image generation) are properly handled and only appear when their specific input types are requested. v8.6.0 removes reseller markups (20% buffer) and dedicated instance multipliers to reflect official provider pricing.
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