Model comparison

GPT-5 vs Llama 4 Scout

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 40 shared benchmarks.

GPT-5 OpenAI

50.9

Rank #45 Confirmed

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 40 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-5 scores higher in 10 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in long context, where GPT-5 leads 69.5 to 27.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.4% for GPT-5 and 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout.
  • Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $10 for GPT-5.
  • GPT-5 accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 128K.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GPT-5 and Llama 4 Scout specifications
GPT-5Llama 4 Scout
ProviderOpenAIMeta
Noometry Index50.927.7
Released2025-08-072025-04-05
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window400K128K
Max output128K4K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.10
Output $ / M tokens$10$0.30
Results tracked6943

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Category by category

Coding GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 50.3 (#47), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)65%9.1%
SciCode42.9%17%
LMArena Coding14361286
SWE-bench Verified73.6%—
Aider Polyglot88%—
LMArena WebDev1418—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML60.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete—43.1%
ALE-Bench1,162—
AlgoTune1.67—

Agentic & Tool Use GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 33.1 (#56), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
Terminal-Bench49.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—28.1%
GDPval34.8%—
Remote Labor Index1.7%—
DeepResearch Bench49.6%—
BALROG32.8%—
LMArena Search1133—
METR Time Horizons69.6%—

Reasoning GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 38.3 (#64), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
ARC-AGI-29.9%0%
Kagi LLM Benchmark72.7%36.9%
ARC-AGI-165.7%0.5%
CritPt12.6%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14161266
DTBench90.7%57.9%
LMCA40%12%
Epoch Capabilities Index150129.64
ForecastBench61.457.5
SimpleBench56.7%—
Chess Puzzles37%—
EnigmaEval10.5%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles23%—

Math GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 55.0 (#44), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.4%7.8%
Omni-MATH64.7%37.3%
LMArena Math14071287
MATH Level 598.1%62.3%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)32.4%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 422%—
ProofBench18%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)12.5%—

Knowledge GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 56.6 (#43), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
GPQA Diamond86.2%51.8%
MMLU-Pro86.3%74.2%
Vectara Hallucination Rate14.7%7.7%
GPQA (HELM)79.2%50.7%
LMArena Expert14191235
Humanity's Last Exam25.3%—
SimpleQA Verified50.1%—
Confabulations10.3%—

Multimodal GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 46.8 (#13), Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Vision12321118
GeoBench81%—
VPCT66%—
SpatialViz-Bench—34.2%

Multilingual GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 51.4 (#110), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Non-English13971252
LMArena Chinese14221255
LMArena French14101282
LMArena German14161272
LMArena Japanese14091206
LMArena Korean13601207
LMArena Russian14061263
LMArena Spanish13991278

Instruction Following GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 73.8 (#113), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
IFEval87.5%81.8%
LMArena Instruction Following13881248

Long Context GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 69.5 (#2), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
Fiction.LiveBench97.2%36%
LMArena Longer Query13991265

Writing & Preference GPT-5 leads

GPT-5: 63.4 (#65), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
LMArena Text14061279
LMArena Creative Writing13651249
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1627783
WildBench85.7%78%
LMArena Multi-Turn14261280
Short-Story Creative Writing86%—

Frequently asked questions

Is GPT-5 better than Llama 4 Scout?

GPT-5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GPT-5's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GPT-5 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 lists at $1.25 and $10.

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

GPT-5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.3 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

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

40 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.

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