Anthropic vs Meta Llama Pricing
Per-million-token pricing for Anthropic and Meta Llama, with side-by-side flagship models, cheapest tiers, and context windows. Pricing data syncs weekly from a continuously-updated model catalog — last updated June 22, 2026.
As of June 22, 2026, Meta Llama offers the lowest output-token price at $0.02/1M (Llama 3.2 3B Instruct — $0.02/1M output).
Who wins on what
Cheapest input tokens
$0.02/1MMeta Llama
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct — $0.02/1M input
Cheapest output tokens
$0.02/1MMeta Llama
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct — $0.02/1M output
Longest context window
1.0MMeta Llama
Llama 4 Maverick — 1.0M input tokens
Lowest average output cost
$0.67/1MMeta Llama
Provider-wide average across 22 models
Largest model catalog
41 modelsAnthropic
More options to match cost vs capability
Most reasoning models
3 modelsAnthropic
Models with dedicated reasoning / thinking support
Most vision models
9 modelsAnthropic
Models that accept image input
Side-by-side
Anthropic
Cheapest input
$0.250
Claude 3 Haiku
Cheapest output
$1.25
Claude 3 Haiku
Longest context
1.0M
Claude 4 Sonnet (2025-05-14)
Avg output / 1M
$25.49
Across catalog
Cheapest cached input
$0.030
Claude Haiku 3
| Model | In/1M | Out/1M | Ctx |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Fable 5 VisionReasoningToolsCache | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1.0M |
| Claude Opus 4.8 VisionReasoningToolsCache | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1.0M |
| Claude Opus 4.7 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 200K |
| Claude 3 Haiku | $0.250 | $1.25 | 200K |
Meta Llama
Cheapest input
$0.020
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Cheapest output
$0.020
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Longest context
1.0M
Llama 4 Maverick
Avg output / 1M
$0.674
Across catalog
| Model | In/1M | Out/1M | Ctx |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.1 405B (base) | $4.00 | $4.00 | 33K |
| Llama 3.1 405B Instruct | $3.50 | $3.50 | 131K |
| Llama 4 Maverick | $0.150 | $0.600 | 1.0M |
| Llama 3 70B Instruct | $0.300 | $0.400 | 8K |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | $0.400 | $0.400 | 131K |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | $0.020 | $0.020 | 131K |
All prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Showing top 6 models per provider, sorted by output cost.
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