Model comparison
Llama 2-7B vs Llama 4 Scout
Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 2-7B scores higher in 4 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 4 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multilingual, where Llama 4 Scout leads 41.0 to 23.8.
Side by side
| Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.1 | 27.7 |
| Released | 2023-07-18 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 29 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Llama 2-7B leads
Llama 2-7B: 29.2 (#307), Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1002 | 1286 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
Reasoning Llama 2-7B leads
Llama 2-7B: 15.7 (#312), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1009 | 1266 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 99.06 | 129.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 39.2% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
| HellaSwag | 77.2% | — |
| LAMBADA | 73.3% | — |
| PIQA | 78.8% | — |
| WinoGrande | 69.2% | — |
Math Llama 2-7B leads
Llama 2-7B: 30.7 (#233), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1042 | 1287 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 7.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | 16.7% | — |
Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 2-7B: 28.2 (#248), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1036 | 1235 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 51.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50.7% |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 45.9% | — |
| BoolQ | 77.9% | — |
| MMLU | 45.8% | — |
| OpenBookQA | 58.6% | — |
| TriviaQA | 73.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 2-7B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| ScienceQA | 43.1% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 2-7B: 23.8 (#293), Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 973 | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | 973 | 1255 |
| LMArena French | 970 | 1282 |
| LMArena German | 978 | 1272 |
| LMArena Russian | 995 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1007 | 1278 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1207 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 2-7B: 50.8 (#298), Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1006 | 1248 |
| IFEval | — | 81.8% |
Long Context Llama 2-7B leads
Llama 2-7B: 30.4 (#287), Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 999 | 1265 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |
Writing & Preference Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 2-7B: 28.0 (#298), Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 2-7B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1053 | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1033 | 1249 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1029 | 1280 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| WildBench | — | 78% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 2-7B better than Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 2-7B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.1 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 2-7B or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?
Llama 2-7B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.2 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 2-7B and Llama 4 Scout share?
16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 2-7B has 29 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.