Granite 4.2 8B vs Llama 4 Scout

Which is better for the money: Granite 4.2 8B by IBM or Llama 4 Scout by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Clear winner

IBMGranite 4.2 8BOff the frontier

Intelligence: 11.10
Total cost: $53.1

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

Verdict

Pick Granite 4.2 8B

Llama 4 Scout vs Granite 4.2 8B: 41.4% less intelligence, 38.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 86.9% faster end-to-end.

Metric	Granite 4.2 8B	Llama 4 Scout	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	11.1	6.5	−41.4% Llama 4 Scout is 41.4% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$53.07	$73.56	+38.6% Llama 4 Scout is 38.6% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	39.25s	5.16s	−86.9% Llama 4 Scout is 86.9% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.06 / $0.25	$0.18 / $0.66
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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Granite 4.2 8B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (High) scores 32.90 for $47.9.
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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