Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.1

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Scout by Meta or Mistral Small 3.1 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 Small 3.1Off the frontier

Intelligence: 7.10
Total cost: $27.8

Verdict

Pick Mistral Small 3.1

Mistral Small 3.1 vs Llama 4 Scout: 9.2% more intelligence, 62.2% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 135.5% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Llama 4 Scout	Mistral Small 3.1	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.5	7.1	+9.2% Mistral Small 3.1 is 9.2% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$73.56	$27.82	−62.2% Mistral Small 3.1 is 62.2% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	4.99s	11.75s	+135.5% Mistral Small 3.1 is 135.5% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.18 / $0.66	$0.08 / $0.14
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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 Small 3.1 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Low) scores 21.50 for $10.6.

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