vs
1:7
overall capability wins (0 ties across 8 scored). Llama 4 Scout leads overall.
- Reasoning1:3
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:3
Verdict
Llama 4 Scout edges reasoning & knowledge; Llama 4 Scout ranks higher on LMArena (+98 Elo); Llama 4 Scout offers ~1220.7x larger context (10M vs 8K).
- Llama 4 Scout edges reasoning & knowledge
- Llama 4 Scout ranks higher on LMArena (+98 Elo)
- Llama 4 Scout offers ~1220.7x larger context (10M vs 8K)
- Llama 4 Scout allows ~4.0x more max output (33K vs 8K)
- Llama 3 8B is ~4.9x cheaper on a blended token basis than Llama 4 Scout
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Llama 3 8B
- $0.07
- Llama 4 Scout
- $0.33
Llama 3 8B is about 4.7x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Meta
Meta
Family
Llama / Muse
Llama / Muse
License
Llama 3
Llama 4 Community
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Apr 18, 2024
Apr 5, 2025
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Groq / Together (ref.)
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
8K
10M
Max output
8K
33K
Parameters
8B
109B (17B act.)
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.05
$0.18
Output $/1M
$0.08
$0.59
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.06
$0.28
Speed
tok/s
200
110
TTFT (s)
0.12
0.3
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
74.3
GPQA Diamond
29.6
58.7
Humanity's Last Exam
5.1
3.8
AIME 2025
—
14.0
MATH-500
—
84.4
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
10.4
15.2
AA-LCR v1.1
—
27.7
CritPt
—
—
MMMU-Pro
—
52.9
IFBench
24.6
39.5
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
9.1
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
32.8
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
3.7
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
31.9
—
SciCode
—
21.3
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
6.6
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,223
1,322
| Metric | Llama 3 8B | Llama 4 Scout | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Meta | Meta | — |
| Family | Llama / Muse | Llama / Muse | — |
| License | Llama 3 | Llama 4 Community | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 18, 2024 | Apr 5, 2025 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Groq / Together (ref.) | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 8K | 10M | B +10.0M |
| Max output | 8K | 33K | B +25K |
| Parameters | 8B | 109B (17B act.) | B +101 |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.05 | $0.18 | A +$0.13 |
| Output $/1M | $0.08 | $0.59 | A +$0.51 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.06 | $0.28 | A +$0.22 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 200 | 110 | A +90 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.12 | 0.3 | A +0.18 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.3 | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 29.6 | 58.7 | B +29.1 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.1 | 3.8 | A +1.3 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | 14.0 | — |
| MATH-500 | — | 84.4 | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 10.4 | 15.2 | B +4.8 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 27.7 | — |
| CritPt | — | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | 52.9 | — |
| IFBench | 24.6 | 39.5 | B +14.9 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 9.1 | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | 32.8 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 3.7 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 31.9 | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 21.3 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | 6.6 | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,223 | 1,322 | B +98 Elo |
Llama 3 8B
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- $0.05 / $0.08
- Speed
- 200 tok/s · 0.12s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Llama 3
Compact Llama 3 instruct — still a common local and Groq ultra-low-latency SKU.
Llama 4 Scout
- Context
- 10M / 33K out
- Parameters
- 109B (17B act.)
- Price
- $0.18 / $0.59
- Speed
- 110 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- Llama 4 Community
Llama 4 variant with an extreme 10M context window for long-document retrieval workloads.
Benchmark charts
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