Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) vs Llama 4 Scout

Which is better for the money: Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) by Google 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

GoogleGemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 8.90
Total cost: $14.7

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

Verdict

Pick Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)

Llama 4 Scout vs Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning): 27.0% less intelligence, 401.1% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 91.1% faster end-to-end.

Metric	Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning)	Llama 4 Scout	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	8.9	6.5	−27.0% Llama 4 Scout is 27.0% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$14.68	$73.56	+401.1% Llama 4 Scout is 5.0× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	57.75s	5.16s	−91.1% Llama 4 Scout is 91.1% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.02 / $0.10	$0.18 / $0.66
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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemma 4 E4B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.
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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