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Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking vs Llama 4 Maverick

Data verified

Head-to-head evidence from 9 shared benchmark results across 6 categories. Overall scores shown here use the public BenchAlign v5 ranking lane.

36.55/100
Margin
13.1pts
← winning
23.49/100
0 category wins0 category wins

Public leaderboard positions: Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking #184 (Supported); Llama 4 Maverick #191 (Supported). Intervals and evidence labels describe ranking uncertainty, not a guarantee for a specific workload.

Evidence parity. Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Llama 4 Maverick share 9 comparable benchmark results. 0 of 8 categories are comparable. 0 results are unique to Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking; 9 to Llama 4 Maverick.

Updated July 20, 2026
Shared results
9
Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking only
0
Llama 4 Maverick only
9
Comparable categories
0 / 8

Benchmark data for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Llama 4 Maverick is coming soon on BenchLM.

Confidence note. This is a partial-evidence comparison with 9 shared benchmark results across 6 evidence categories; 0 of 8 categories currently have scoreable aggregates for both models. Treat the verdict as directional until coverage is more balanced.

Why this result

BenchLM has partial data for these models, but not enough overlapping benchmark coverage to produce a fair score-level comparison yet.

Llama 4 Maverick has the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking.

Category breakdown

Exact category averages are shown below. Not measured means BenchLM does not have enough sourced public coverage for that model and category.

Category scores and score margins for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Llama 4 Maverick
CategoryClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingΔLlama 4 Maverick
MathClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot measuredMarginNo overlapLlama 4 Maverick0.7

Operational comparison

Runtime and commercial metrics are compared only when both models have a complete sourced value.

MetricClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickComparison
Input / output priceUSD per 1M tokensClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingNot availableLlama 4 Maverick$0 input / $0 outputA complete price comparison is not available.
Generation speedtokens per secondClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking29 tok/sLlama 4 Maverick121 tok/sLlama 4 Maverick has the higher measured throughput.
First-answer latencyseconds to first tokenClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking15.00 sLlama 4 Maverick0.95 sLlama 4 Maverick reaches the first token sooner.
Context windowmaximum listed tokensClaude 4.1 Opus Thinking200KLlama 4 Maverick1MLlama 4 Maverick lists the larger context window.

Benchmark Deep Dive

Agentic
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
τ²-bench resultsSource 71.4%17.8%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA Agentic IndexSource 1.3%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource 0.0%Not comparable
GDPval-AASource -16Not comparable
Coding
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
AA-SciCodeSource 40.9%33.1%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA Coding IndexSource 16.3%Not comparable
Reasoning
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
AA-LCRSource 66.3%46.0%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
CritPtSource 0.0%0.0%Tie
Knowledge
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexSource 33.7%14.3%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-GPQA DiamondSource 80.9%67.1%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-HLESource 11.9%4.8%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
AA-Omniscience IndexSource -41.8%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience AccuracySource 24.3%Not comparable
AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateSource 87.3%Not comparable
Math
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3)Source 0.690%Not comparable
Multimodal
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
AA-MMMU-ProSource 67.9%62.1%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
Design Arena WebsiteSource 903Not comparable
Inst. Following
BenchmarkClaude 4.1 Opus ThinkingLlama 4 MaverickResult
AA-IFBenchSource 55.4%43.0%Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking leads
Frequently Asked Questions (3)

Can I compare Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Llama 4 Maverick on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but the sourced benchmark breakdown for this comparison is still coming soon.

Why does this comparison show “coming soon”?

BenchLM only shows category winners and benchmark-level calls when we have sourced results that can be compared fairly. For these models, the public benchmark coverage is not complete enough yet.

What data is available for Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking and Llama 4 Maverick today?

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking: Pricing unavailable Llama 4 Maverick: $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens Both model pages still include creator, context window, reasoning mode, and other metadata while benchmark coverage fills in.

Self-host vs API cost

Estimates at 50,000 req/day · 1000 tokens/req average.

Claude 4.1 Opus Thinking
API / mo$0
Self-host / moNot listed
Break-even
Proprietary model — self-hosting not applicable.
Llama 4 Maverick
API / mo$0
Self-host / mo$2,610
Break-even
Model the full break-even

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Last updated: July 20, 2026

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