Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Large 3

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Scout by Meta or Mistral Large 3 by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

MistralMistral Large 3Off the frontier

Intelligence: 9.30
Total cost: $46.4

Verdict

Pick Mistral Large 3

Mistral Large 3 vs Llama 4 Scout: 43.1% more intelligence, 36.9% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 41.7% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Llama 4 Scout	Mistral Large 3	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.5	9.3	+43.1% Mistral Large 3 is 43.1% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$73.56	$46.41	−36.9% Mistral Large 3 is 36.9% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	5.06s	7.17s	+41.7% Mistral Large 3 is 41.7% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.18 / $0.66	$0.50 / $1.50
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Llama 4 Scout is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Xhigh) scores 34.60 for $66.8.
Mistral Large 3 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.

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