Noometry

Model comparison

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Llama 4 Scout

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 7.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3 Flash Preview Google

52.3

Rank #40 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher in 10 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 49.2 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview and 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $0.50 / $3 for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Gemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index52.327.7
Released2025-12-172025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output66K4K
Input $ / M tokens$0.50$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$3$0.30
Results tracked5943

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.8%9.1%
LMArena Coding14601286
SWE-bench Verified75.4%—
LMArena WebDev1439—
SWE-bench Multilingual72.7%—
SciCode—17%
GSO9.8%—
WeirdML61.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete—43.1%
ALE-Bench1,367—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
Terminal-Bench64.3%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%
τ²-bench Airline82.5%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
τ²-bench Retail76.8%—
τ²-bench Telecom91.2%—
DeepResearch Bench49.8%—
BALROG48.1%—
GDP.pdf10%—
LMArena Search1198—
Vending-Bench 23,635—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
ARC-AGI-233.6%0%
ARC-AGI-184.7%0.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts14651266
DTBench89.1%57.9%
LMCA43.1%12%
Epoch Capabilities Index151.8129.64
ForecastBench58.557.5
SimpleBench61.1%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark—36.9%
NYT Connections (extended)83.1%—
CritPt—0%
Chess Puzzles40%—
Mystery Game Puzzles26%—

Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202595.6%7.8%
LMArena Math14731287
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)35.6%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)51.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions67.6%—
ProofBench15%—
Omni-MATH—37.3%
MATH Level 5—62.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond89.4%51.8%
Vectara Hallucination Rate13.5%7.7%
LMArena Expert14621235
SimpleQA Verified66.8%—
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16), Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision12851118
GeoBench88%—
VPCT72.6%—
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1413—
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English14581252
LMArena Chinese15111255
LMArena French14771282
LMArena German14971272
LMArena Japanese14891206
LMArena Korean14431207
LMArena Russian14801263
LMArena Spanish14691278

Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Instruction Following14371248
IFEval—81.8%

Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Longer Query14521265
Fiction.LiveBench—36%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

BenchmarkGemini 3 Flash PreviewLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text14661279
LMArena Creative Writing14571249
LMArena Multi-Turn14711280
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview better than Llama 4 Scout?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 7.5× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Gemini 3 Flash Preview's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3 Flash Preview 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; Gemini 3 Flash Preview lists at $0.50 and $3.

Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3 Flash Preview and Llama 4 Scout share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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