Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.2

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Scout by Meta or Mistral Small 3.2 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 Small 3.2Off the frontier

Intelligence: 7.00
Total cost: $122

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Mistral Small 3.2 scores 0.5 points higher (7.0 vs 6.5) but costs 1.7× as much to run the benchmark ($122 vs $73.6; both mid-range class). Pick Mistral Small 3.2 when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Llama 4 Scout.

Metric	Llama 4 Scout	Mistral Small 3.2	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.5	7.0	+7.7% Mistral Small 3.2 is 7.7% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$73.56	$121.78	+65.6% Mistral Small 3.2 is 65.6% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	5.00s	12.77s	+155.4% Mistral Small 3.2 is 155.4% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.18 / $0.66	$0.07 / $0.20
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Mistral Small 3.2 vs Llama 4 Scout: 7.7% more intelligence, 65.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 155.4% 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 Small 3.2 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Flash scores 37.90 for $110.

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