Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)

Which is better for the money: Llama 4 Scout by Meta or Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) by Mistral? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Clear winner

MetaLlama 4 ScoutOff the frontier

Intelligence: 6.50
Total cost: $73.6

MistralMistral Small 4 (Reasoning)On the open-weights frontier

Intelligence: 11.30
Total cost: $42.5

Verdict

Pick Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)

Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning) vs Llama 4 Scout: 73.8% more intelligence, 42.2% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 181.0% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Llama 4 Scout	Mistral Small 4 (Reasoning)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	6.5	11.3	+73.8% Mistral Small 4 (Reas… is 73.8% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$73.56	$42.50	−42.2% Mistral Small 4 (Reas… is 42.2% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	5.16s	14.50s	+181.0% Mistral Small 4 (Reas… is 181.0% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.18 / $0.66	$0.15 / $0.60
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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 4 (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.

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