Llama 4 Maverick vs Llama 4 Scout

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Maverick by Meta 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

MetaLlama 4 MaverickOff the frontier

Intelligence: 9.30
Total cost: $44.0

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Maverick

Llama 4 Scout vs Llama 4 Maverick: 30.1% less intelligence, 67.3% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 53.8% faster end-to-end.

Metric	Llama 4 Maverick	Llama 4 Scout	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	9.3	6.5	−30.1% Llama 4 Scout is 30.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$43.98	$73.56	+67.3% Llama 4 Scout is 67.3% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	11.18s	5.16s	−53.8% Llama 4 Scout is 53.8% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.25 / $0.92	$0.18 / $0.66
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Llama 4 Maverick is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
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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