Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Medium 3.5

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Scout by Meta or Mistral Medium 3.5 by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

MistralMistral Medium 3.5Off the frontier

Intelligence: 14.20
Total cost: $1264

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Mistral Medium 3.5 scores 7.7 points higher (14.2 vs 6.5) but costs 17× as much to run the benchmark ($1264 vs $73.6; premium vs mid-range cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Mistral Medium 3.5 when you need intelligence above 6.5, and Llama 4 Scout when 6.5 is enough.

Metric	Llama 4 Scout	Mistral Medium 3.5	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.5	14.2	+118.5% Mistral Medium 3.5 is 2.2× more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$73.56	$1,263.80	+1618.1% Mistral Medium 3.5 is 17× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	5.00s	17.77s	+255.4% Mistral Medium 3.5 is 255.4% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.18 / $0.66	$1.50 / $7.50
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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs Llama 4 Scout: 118.5% more intelligence, 1618.1% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 255.4% slower end-to-end.

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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 Medium 3.5 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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