Model comparison
Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral
Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 22 shared benchmarks.
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Mistral AISummary
- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout scores higher in 3 categories and Mistral in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Scout leads 31.9 to 16.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MMLU-Pro: 74.2% for Llama 4 Scout and 27.7% for Mistral.
- Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Scout | Mistral | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 27.7 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Results tracked | 43 | 22 |
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Category by category
Coding Mistral leads
Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339), Mistral: 33.8 (#250)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1162 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 9.1% | — |
| SciCode | 17% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.1% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 28.1% | — |
Reasoning Mistral leads
Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345), Mistral: 22.2 (#200)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1149 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36.9% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 0.5% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| DTBench | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 12% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.64 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Mistral leads
Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286), Mistral: 22.3 (#278)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 37.3% | 7.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1287 | 1180 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.8% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 62.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217), Mistral: 16.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 74.2% | 27.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50.7% | 30.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1235 | 1125 |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.8% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.7% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102), Mistral: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 34.2% | — |
Multilingual Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212), Mistral: 32.8 (#254)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1252 | 1129 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1255 | 1109 |
| LMArena French | 1282 | 1180 |
| LMArena German | 1272 | 1155 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1206 | 1013 |
| LMArena Korean | 1207 | 1032 |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | 1168 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1278 | 1143 |
Instruction Following Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217), Mistral: 52.6 (#288)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.8% | 56.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1152 |
Long Context Mistral leads
Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294), Mistral: 35.0 (#245)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1265 | 1153 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 36% | — |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261), Mistral: 37.0 (#260)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1279 | 1165 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1249 | 1158 |
| WildBench | 78% | 66% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1280 | 1147 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 783 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Scout better than Mistral?
Mistral is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 4 Scout or Mistral better for coding?
Mistral scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and Mistral share?
22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and Mistral has 22.