Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and Meta / Together's Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI.
• Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI: Classified as a Legacy Reference model (Deprecated on Together AI (Reference)).
| Metric | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | Anthropic | Meta / Together | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $1.00 | $0.27 | Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI (73% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.10 | None | Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI lower |
| Output / 1M | $5.00 | $0.85 | Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI lower |
| Context Window | 200k | 1M | Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI (1M) |
| Max Generation Tokens | 8.2k | 16.4k | Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI |
| Tokenizer Family | Anthropic Claude BPE (~65k vocabulary) | Meta Llama 3/4 Tiktoken (128k vocabulary) | — |
Opt for Claude Haiku 4.5 when your engineering requirements prioritize Anthropic's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated Claude Tokenizer (±3%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $1/M input rate.
Opt for Llama 4 Maverick (400B) — Together AI when looking for Meta / Together's tooling integration, specific context window depth (1M tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $0.85/M rate.