Granite 4.2 30B vs Llama 4 Scout

Which is better for the money: Granite 4.2 30B by IBM 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

IBMGranite 4.2 30BOff the frontier

Intelligence: 12.70
Total cost: $111

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Granite 4.2 30B scores 6.2 points higher (12.7 vs 6.5) but costs 1.5× as much to run the benchmark ($111 vs $73.6; both mid-range class). Pick Granite 4.2 30B when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Llama 4 Scout.

Metric	Granite 4.2 30B	Llama 4 Scout	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	12.7	6.5	−48.8% Llama 4 Scout is 48.8% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$110.83	$73.56	−33.6% Llama 4 Scout is 33.6% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	54.96s	4.99s	−90.9% Llama 4 Scout is 90.9% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.16 / $0.65	$0.18 / $0.66
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Llama 4 Scout vs Granite 4.2 30B: 48.8% less intelligence, 33.6% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 90.9% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Granite 4.2 30B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores 37.90 for $110.
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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