llm model
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Llama 4
Claude is hosted; Llama is open-weights. That single fact drives almost every other comparison — cost structure, deployment, privacy, and capability ceiling.
Contender A
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Hosted frontier model
Contender B
Llama 4
Meta's open-weights family
Side-by-side comparison
Metric
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Llama 4
Weights
Closed
Open (community licence)
Self-host
No
Yes
Best benchmark tier
Frontier
Near-frontier (70B+)
Cost at scale
$3 / 1M tok
Infra-only (GPU hours)
When Claude Sonnet 4.6 is the right pick
Teams that want the frontier today with zero infra.
When Llama 4 is the right pick
Teams that must self-host for privacy / regulation, or want per-token cost ≈ 0 at volume.
Verdict
Claude if capability-per-dollar at low volume matters. Llama if you have GPUs and regulated workloads.
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