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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Llama 4 405B

A complete head-to-head: pricing, context window, benchmarks, modality coverage, and openness, with a programmatic verdict synthesized from the underlying data.

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Claude Opus 4.7 specs · Llama 4 405B specs
Verdict by category
  • PriceTie

    Neither model publishes per-token API pricing.

  • Context windowClaude Opus 4.7

    Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 500K tokens vs 256K, 2.0× the room for long documents and codebases.

  • BenchmarksTie

    No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores.

  • ModalitiesTie

    Both handle text, vision.

  • OpennessLlama 4 405B

    Llama 4 405B ships open weights (Llama 4 Community License); Claude Opus 4.7 is API-only.

It's a genuine coin-flip between Claude Opus 4.7 and Llama 4 405B: 1 category wins each, with the rest tied. Neither model publishes per-token API pricing. Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 500K tokens vs 256K, 2.0× the room for long documents and codebases.

No directly comparable public benchmarks are available for both models, check the spec sheets for individual scores. Both target the same set of modalities (text, vision), so the deciding factors are price, context, and raw quality. Llama 4 405B ships open weights (Llama 4 Community License); Claude Opus 4.7 is API-only.

Claude Opus 4.7 is the newer of the two, released 11 months after Llama 4 405B, which usually means a more recent knowledge cutoff and updated safety post-training. Claude Opus 4.7 is usually picked for coding llm and coding agent workloads, while Llama 4 405B sees more deployments in open source llm and fine tuning. If pricing matters more than every last benchmark point, run the numbers in the calculator below before committing.

Side-by-side specs

SpecClaude Opus 4.7Llama 4 405B
ProviderAnthropicMeta
ReleasedFeb 2026Apr 2025
Modalitiestext, visiontext, vision
Context window500K tokens256K tokens
Max output,,
Input · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Output · 1MPricing not publishedPricing not published
Knowledge cutoff,2024-12
Open weightsNoYes (Llama 4 Community License)
API availableYesYes

Pricing at scale

What you'd actually pay at typical workloads. Numbers come from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day, vs ,
  • Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day, vs ,
  • RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day, vs ,

Light usage, 100k in / 50k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). Heavy usage, 1M in / 500k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates). RAG workload, 5M in / 200k out per day: pricing not directly comparable (one or both models are missing public per-token rates).

Price calculator

Estimated spend for the listed models at your usage. Numbers are derived from each model's published per-million-token rates.

  • Claude Opus 4.7Pricing unavailable
  • Llama 4 405BPricing unavailable

Benchmarks compared

Only sourced numbers. Where a benchmark is missing for one model we show the available value rather than fabricating the other.

Benchmark scores not yet available. We only publish numbers we can source from official model cards or independent leaderboards, see methodology.
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if

Claude Opus 4.7 fits when…

  • Strongest published SWE-bench Verified scores in agent settings
  • Best-in-class writing quality and voice control
  • Excellent long-context recall and citation discipline
  • Long-context tasks, handles 500K tokens vs 256K for Llama 4 405B.
Pick Llama 4 405B if

Llama 4 405B fits when…

  • Strongest open-weight model at launch
  • Multimodal (text + vision)
  • Wide hosting availability
  • Self-hosting and on-prem requirements, open weights (Llama 4 Community License).
Don't want either?

Consider Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic's mid-tier 4.6 release, the workhorse model behind most production Anthropic deployments.

See Claude Sonnet 4.6 specsClaude Opus 4.7 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6Llama 4 405B vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

Frequently asked

  • Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Llama 4 405B cheaper?
    Per-token pricing isn't published for at least one of these models, check each model's spec page for current rates.
  • Which has the larger context window?
    Claude Opus 4.7 accepts 500K tokens vs 256K for Llama 4 405B.
  • Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Llama 4 405B better for coding?
    Both Claude Opus 4.7 and Llama 4 405B are competitive on coding benchmarks. See each model's individual spec page for HumanEval and SWE-bench scores where published. For an opinionated pick, consult our Best LLM for Coding ranking.
  • Are either of these models open source?
    Llama 4 405B ships open weights (Llama 4 Community License). Claude Opus 4.7 is API-only.
  • When were Claude Opus 4.7 and Llama 4 405B released?
    Claude Opus 4.7 was released by Anthropic on 2026-02-15. Llama 4 405B was released by Meta on 2025-04-05.
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