Model comparison
Grok 3 vs Llama 4 Scout
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 3 scores higher in 9 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Grok 3 leads 41.9 to 20.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 55.6% for Grok 3 and 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout.
- Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 39.9 | 27.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-09 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 40 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 41.9 (#115), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1432 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| Aider Polyglot | 53.3% | — |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| WeirdML | 37.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 30.5 (#76), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 13.7 (#333), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 61.3% | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5.5% | 0.5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1434 | 1266 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.33 | 129.64 |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 38.0 (#145), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 7.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 37.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1391 | 1287 |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 0% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 46.2 (#82), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.8% | 51.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.8% | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 5.8% | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | 50.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1421 | 1235 |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Grok 3: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 52.3 (#87), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1410 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1255 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1282 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1387 | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | 1373 | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1278 |
Instruction Following Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 75.0 (#73), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1248 |
Long Context Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 38.7 (#192), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 36% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1265 |
Writing & Preference Grok 3 leads
Grok 3: 55.8 (#141), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)
| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1426 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1414 | 1249 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1186 | 783 |
| WildBench | 84.9% | 78% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1425 | 1280 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 3 better than Llama 4 Scout?
Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 3 or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?
Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.9 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 3 and Llama 4 Scout share?
33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 3 has 40 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.