Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Llama 4 Scout

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 200× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 62.4 to 37.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.1.
  • Claude Opus 4.1 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 4 Scout specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
ProviderAnthropicMeta
Noometry Index41.027.7
Released2025-08-052025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K128K
Max output32K4K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$75$0.30
Results tracked4843

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Coding14791286
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
LMArena WebDev1390—
SciCode—17%
WeirdML45.9%—
BigCodeBench Complete—43.1%
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
Terminal-Bench38%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Hard Prompts14431266
DTBench80%57.9%
LMCA37.1%12%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12129.64
ForecastBench6257.5
ARC-AGI-2—0%
SimpleBench60%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
ARC-AGI-1—0.5%
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—

Math Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%7.8%
LMArena Math14311287
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
Omni-MATH—37.3%
MATH Level 5—62.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond77.3%51.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%7.7%
LMArena Expert14391235
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
Confabulations17.1%—
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%

Multimodal Llama 4 Scout leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision—1118
VPCT35%—
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English14051252
LMArena Chinese14271255
LMArena French14311282
LMArena German14131272
LMArena Japanese13781206
LMArena Korean13801207
LMArena Russian14221263
LMArena Spanish14481278

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Instruction Following14351248
IFEval—81.8%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query14551265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Text14191279
LMArena Creative Writing14121249
LMArena Multi-Turn14441280
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Llama 4 Scout?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 200× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Claude Opus 4.1 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Llama 4 Scout share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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