Model comparison

GPT-5 Pro vs Llama 4 Scout

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 275× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 Pro OpenAI

46.4

Rank #64 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 Pro scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 Pro leads 38.9 to 9.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-1: 70.2% for GPT-5 Pro and 0.5% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $120 for GPT-5 Pro.
  • GPT-5 Pro accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 Pro and Llama 4 Scout specifications
GPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index46.427.7
Released2025-10-062025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output272K4K
Input $ / M tokens$15$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$120$0.30
Results tracked1243

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 44.0 (#80), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—9.1%
SciCode—17%
WeirdML60.4%—
LMArena Coding—1286
BigCodeBench Complete—43.1%
AlgoTune1.31—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%

Reasoning GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 38.9 (#62), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
ARC-AGI-218.3%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark76.8%36.9%
ARC-AGI-170.2%0.5%
Epoch Capabilities Index150.28129.64
SimpleBench61.6%—
CritPt—0%
EnigmaEval18.8%—
LMArena Hard Prompts—1266
DTBench—57.9%
LMCA—12%
ForecastBench—57.5

Math GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 48.5 (#63), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 419.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—7.8%
Omni-MATH—37.3%
LMArena Math—1287
MATH Level 5—62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge GPT-5 Pro leads

GPT-5 Pro: 56.7 (#42), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond—51.8%
Humanity's Last Exam31.6%—
MMLU-Pro—74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.7%
GPQA (HELM)—50.7%
LMArena Expert—1235

Multimodal Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision—1118
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English—1252
LMArena Chinese—1255
LMArena French—1282
LMArena German—1272
LMArena Japanese—1206
LMArena Korean—1207
LMArena Russian—1263
LMArena Spanish—1278

Instruction Following Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
IFEval—81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following—1248

Long Context Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
Fiction.LiveBench—36%
LMArena Longer Query—1265

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GPT-5 Pro: —, Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5 ProLlama 4 Scout
LMArena Text—1279
LMArena Creative Writing—1249
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—783
WildBench—78%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1280

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 Pro better than Llama 4 Scout?

GPT-5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 46.4 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 275× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5 Pro's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 Pro 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; GPT-5 Pro lists at $15 and $120.

Is GPT-5 Pro or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

GPT-5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Pro does, with 400K tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GPT-5 Pro and Llama 4 Scout share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 Pro has 12 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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