Model comparison

Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3-1.7B

Llama 4 Scout is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.7 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.7

Rank #330 Confirmed

Qwen3-1.7B Alibaba (Qwen)

26.6

Rank #336 Reported

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout scores higher in 2 categories and Qwen3-1.7B in 2 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Llama 4 Scout leads 31.9 to 19.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 51.8% for Llama 4 Scout and 38% for Qwen3-1.7B.

Side by side

Llama 4 Scout and Qwen3-1.7B specifications
Llama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index27.726.6
Released2025-04-052025-04-29
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.30—
Results tracked434

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)9.1%—
SciCode17%—
LMArena Coding1286—
BigCodeBench Complete43.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119), Qwen3-1.7B: 24.7 (#115)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard28.1%28.4%

Reasoning Qwen3-1.7B leads

Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.2 (#267)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
ARC-AGI-20%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark36.9%—
ARC-AGI-10.5%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—0%
LMArena Hard Prompts1266—
DTBench57.9%—
LMCA12%—
Epoch Capabilities Index129.64—
ForecastBench57.5—

Math Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286), Qwen3-1.7B: 16.3 (#294)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.8%8.1%
Omni-MATH37.3%—
LMArena Math1287—
MATH Level 562.3%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%—

Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads

Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217), Qwen3-1.7B: 19.6 (#278)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
GPQA Diamond51.8%38%
MMLU-Pro74.2%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.7%—
GPQA (HELM)50.7%—
LMArena Expert1235—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Vision1118—
SpatialViz-Bench34.2%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Non-English1252—
LMArena Chinese1255—
LMArena French1282—
LMArena German1272—
LMArena Japanese1206—
LMArena Korean1207—
LMArena Russian1263—
LMArena Spanish1278—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
IFEval81.8%—
LMArena Instruction Following1248—

Long Context Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
Fiction.LiveBench36%—
LMArena Longer Query1265—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261), Qwen3-1.7B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3-1.7B
LMArena Text1279—
LMArena Creative Writing1249—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing783—
WildBench78%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1280—

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Scout better than Qwen3-1.7B?

Llama 4 Scout is the stronger model overall, scoring 27.7 to 26.6 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and Qwen3-1.7B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-1.7B has 4.

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