# Grok 3 vs Llama 4 Scout

> Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/grok-3-vs-llama-4-scout
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## 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 41.5 to 19.9.
- 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.

## Snapshot

| | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 39.6 | 27.4 |
| Rank | 150 | 323 |
| Context | — | 128K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.10 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.30 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Grok 3: 41.5 (#113)
- Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334)

| 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: 30.2 (#69)
- Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
| BALROG | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Grok 3: 13.8 (#322)
- Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339)

| 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 | 1433 | 1266 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 138.34 | 129.64 |
| SimpleBench | 36.1% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |

## Math

- Grok 3: 36.2 (#122)
- Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 55.6% | 7.8% |
| Omni-MATH | 46.4% | 37.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1286 |
| MATH Level 5 | 88.7% | 62.3% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 3.8% | 0% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Grok 3: 46.0 (#76)
- Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208)

| 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 | 1420 | 1236 |
| Confabulations | 14.2% | — |

## Multimodal

- Grok 3: —
- Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1118 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |

## Multilingual

- Grok 3: 52.5 (#81)
- Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1411 | 1253 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1448 | 1256 |
| LMArena French | 1460 | 1283 |
| LMArena German | 1431 | 1274 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1389 | 1209 |
| LMArena Korean | 1374 | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | 1416 | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1417 | 1277 |

## Instruction Following

- Grok 3: 75.2 (#69)
- Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 88.4% | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1409 | 1248 |

## Long Context

- Grok 3: 38.7 (#187)
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289)

| Benchmark | Grok 3 | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 58.3% | 36% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1439 | 1265 |

## Writing & Preference

- Grok 3: 56.0 (#136)
- Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256)

| 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 | 1424 | 1281 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Grok 3 better than Llama 4 Scout?

Grok 3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.6 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Grok 3 or Llama 4 Scout better for coding?

Grok 3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 41.5 versus 19.9 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.