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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Llama 4 Scout

Anthropic vs Meta. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on LMSYS ELO (1412 vs 1265). Llama 4 Scout is ~64.9× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Llama 4 Scout is open-weights, the other is proprietary.

Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.7

Anthropic’s frontier reasoning model. Leads SWE-Bench and holds top ranks on long-context coding and agentic workflows.

Best-in-class coding agent behaviorStrong instruction following1M-token context with high recallHigh reliability under tool use
Meta
Llama 4 Scout

The 70B workhorse open-weight. Fits on a single H100, beloved by self-hosters.

Single-GPU deployableDirt cheap on aggregatorsStrong fine-tuning base
Pricing
Input / 1M$15.00$0.35
Output / 1M$75.00$0.80
Context1.0M128K
Max output64K8K
LicenseProprietaryOpen weights
Released2026-03-122025-12-10
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1412.01265.0
MMLU Pro92.877.2
HumanEval94.482.4
SWE-Bench72.1
MATH89.372.5
GPQA66.4
MMMU79.2
IFEval92.184.1
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.263$0.0057
Review a 500-line pull request$0.270$0.0044
Answer a customer support ticket$0.105$0.0017
Extract structured data from a resume$0.150$0.0026
Debug a stack trace with context$0.240$0.0037

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.