Claude Opus 4.7 vs Llama 4 Maverick, cloud vs Self-Hosted

Claude Opus 4.7Llama 4 Maverick
arenaElo14201322
humanEval93.182
sweBench64.345
mmlu92.385.1
gpqa65.254.3
aime8860
Price in/out ($/M)$5 / $25$0.2 / $0.8

Our verdict

Opus 4.7 is more intelligent out of the box; Llama 4 Maverick gives you data sovereignty, no per-token cost when self-hosted, and fine-tuning on your own corpus. Use Opus for max-quality agents, Llama when privacy or volume economics rule.

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