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Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is a Meta open-weights model, released 5 Apr 2025. Its best configuration ranks #676 of 785 on the BenchLeader Index at 39.7 ±4.0, in the lower half. The ± is the point: 249 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in human preference (48) and lowest in coding (23). At $0.300 per million tokens blended it is cheaper than most ranked models. Output speed of 105 tokens per second puts it faster than most, with a first answer in 0.8 s. Last measured 22 Oct 2026.

Blended price
$0.300/M
$0.180 in · $0.660 out
Output speed
105 tok/s
measured by Artificial Analysis
First answer
0.85 s
first token 0.64 s
Context
328k
Full answer
5.61 s
median, reasoning included
Cost per run
$0.112
one full Intelligence Index run
Released
5 Apr 2025
How it scores by categoryDashed line = average model (50). One step of 15 = one standard deviation.
  1. Overall index40
  2. Reasoning37
  3. Coding23
  4. Agents & tools36
  5. Maths46
  6. Knowledge38
  7. Instruction following47
  8. Human preference48
  9. Multimodal41
  10. Long context34
  11. Composite37

How its index has moved

8 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026
354045

The index is recomputed from scratch every day, so a line moves when a new benchmark result lands, when a publisher revises a score, or when the models it is normalised against change. Early movement usually means the score is still settling.

Benchmark results

See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.

Knowledge

Instruction following

Human preference

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
Arena Text1322#234Arena (LMArena)
Arena Creative Writingnot in index1289#228Arena (LMArena)
Arena Multi-turnnot in index1319#227Arena (LMArena)
Arena Longer Queriesnot in index1325#232Arena (LMArena)

Multimodal

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
Arena Vision1118#124Arena (LMArena)
MMMU-Pro53.0%#234Artificial Analysis
MMMU (validation)69.4%#23MMMU
VTBnot in index1.6%#20Scale AI SEAL
SpatialViz-Benchnot in index34.2%#4Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub

Long context

Benchmarknot statedSourceTrend
Fiction.LiveBench 120k27.3%#32Fiction.live
AA-LCR27.7%#403Artificial Analysis

Where to run it

Every provider serving this model through OpenRouter, with throughput and first-token latency measured on live traffic over the last 30 minutes and each provider’s own price. Purple marks the best in each column.

ProviderSpeedFirst tokenInput $/MOutput $/MContextQuantisation
DeepInfra47 tok/s0.59 s$0.100$0.300328kfp8
DeepInfra37 tok/s0.71 s$0.150$0.450328kfp8
DeepInfra31 tok/s1.37 s$0.080$0.240328kfp8

Price history

The price above, per 1M tokens, every day it changed.

$0.00$0.187$0.374$0.561$0.748Sept 26Oct 26
input outputnow $0.180 in · $0.660 out

What a task costs

Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.

WorkloadTokens in / outCostWith cachingTime
Chat reply400 / 300$0.0003–3.7 s
Summarize a 30-page report12,000 / 600$0.0026–6.6 s
Code edit6,000 / 1,500$0.0021–15.1 s
Agentic coding session60,000 / 4,000$0.013–38.9 s
Structured extraction2,000 / 200$0.0005–2.8 s

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Questions people ask

What are Llama 4 Scout's benchmark scores?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Llama 4 Scout scores 39.7 ±4.0 on the BenchLeader Index, strongest in human preference (48) and weakest in coding (23). That rests on 27 independent benchmark results, and every score on this page links to its publisher.
How does Llama 4 Scout rank?
Llama 4 Scout is #676 of 785 ranked configurations on 24 Oct 2026. 249 other configurations score within its margin, so the exact position matters less than the band. The leader is Claude Opus 5.5 (max effort) at 72.6.
How much does Llama 4 Scout cost per 1M tokens?
As of 24 Oct 2026, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.180 per 1M input tokens and $0.660 per 1M output tokens, $0.300 blended (three input tokens per output token). The list price last changed on 13 Oct 2026.
When was Llama 4 Scout released?
Meta released Llama 4 Scout on 5 Apr 2025.

Data as of 24 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.

Cite as: BenchLeader, “Llama 4 Scout: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, data as of 24 Oct 2026, https://www.benchleader.com/models/llama-4-scout.