Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 59.9K more tokens in context window than Llama 4 Behemoth. Llama 4 Behemoth is $12.00 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family that balances response quality and efficiency for coding, agentic tasks, and analytical work. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4.5 targets use cases that require a balance of throughput and reasoning depth, including code generation, data analysis, and multi-step agentic pipelines.
Meta AI
Llama 4 Behemoth is a research-scale Mixture-of-Experts language model with approximately 2 trillion total parameters (288 billion active per inference), developed by Meta as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family. Available only in limited preview, it serves as the knowledge distillation source for Llama 4 Scout and Maverick. Behemoth targets research applications requiring the largest-scale open-weight model architecture from the Llama 4 generation.

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 4 Behemoth
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 4 Behemoth
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Llama 4 Behemoth
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 4 Behemoth
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Llama 4 Behemoth
Together AI