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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.6 wins:

  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Supports vision
  • Has reasoning mode

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
Price Advantage
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.6
Context Window
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long
Speed
Claude Opus 4.6

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.6Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long
LicenseProprietaryOpen Source
AuthorAnthropicMeta-llama
ReleasedFeb 2026Unknown

Claude Opus 4.6 Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long Modalities

Input
Output

Frequently Asked Questions

Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long has cheaper input pricing at $0.90/M tokens. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long has cheaper output pricing at $0.90/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.6 has a 1,000,000 token context window, while Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long has a 1,048,576 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.6 supports vision. Llama 3.1 405B Instruct Long does not support vision.