Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) vs Llama 4 Scout
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) by Anthropic or Llama 4 Scout by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium)
Llama 4 Scout vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium): 81.2% less intelligence, 30.5% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 50.4% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) | Llama 4 Scout | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 34.5 | 6.5 | −81.2% Llama 4 Scout is 81.2% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $56.36 | $73.56 | +30.5% Llama 4 Scout is 30.5% more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 10.41s | 5.16s | −50.4% Llama 4 Scout is 50.4% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.18 / $0.66 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
- Llama 4 Scout is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) scores 34.60 for $66.8.
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