Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) vs Llama 4 Scout

Which is better for the money: Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) by Anthropic or Llama 4 Scout by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5 (Low)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 24.30
Total cost: $653

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) scores 17.8 points higher (24.3 vs 6.5) but costs 8.9× as much to run the benchmark ($653 vs $73.6; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) when you need intelligence above 6.5, and Llama 4 Scout when 6.5 is enough.

Metric	Claude Sonnet 5 (Low)	Llama 4 Scout	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	24.3	6.5	−73.3% Llama 4 Scout is 73.3% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$652.70	$73.56	−88.7% Llama 4 Scout is 88.7% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	8.68s	4.99s	−42.5% Llama 4 Scout is 42.5% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$0.18 / $0.66
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Llama 4 Scout vs Claude Sonnet 5 (Low): 73.3% less intelligence, 88.7% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 42.5% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Sonnet 5 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
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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