Is Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Claude Sonnet 4 cheaper?

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens ($0.72 vs $15.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Claude Sonnet 4?

Claude Sonnet 4 has the larger context window (200K tokens).

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct vs Claude Sonnet 4

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct is cheaper on output tokens, while Claude Sonnet 4 offers a larger context window. Choose Llama 3.3 70B Instruct or Claude Sonnet 4 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	Claude Sonnet 4
Provider	Vertex	Vertex
Input / 1M tokens	$0.72	$3.00
Output / 1M tokens	$0.72	$15.00
Context window	128K	200K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	Yes	No
Released	Apr 2025	May 2025

Llama 3.3 70B Instruct details →Claude Sonnet 4 details →

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