# Llama 4 Scout vs o3

> o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/llama-4-scout-vs-o3
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 39

## Summary

- They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout scores higher in 0 categories and o3 in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where o3 leads 50.2 to 19.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout and 84.4% for o3.
- Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.10 / $0.30 per million input/output tokens, against $2 / $8 for o3.
- o3 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 128K.
- Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 27.7 | 47.5 |
| Rank | 330 | 61 |
| Context | 128K | 200K |
| Input $/M | $0.10 | $2 |
| Output $/M | $0.30 | $8 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)
- o3: 46.8 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 9.1% | 58.4% |
| LMArena Coding | 1286 | 1408 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 62.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 81.3% |
| SciCode | 17% | — |
| GSO | — | 8.8% |
| WeirdML | — | 52.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 43.1% | — |
| CadEval | — | 74% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 933.55 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)
- o3: 34.5 (#44)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 28.1% | 63% |
| GDPval | — | 30.8% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 45.2% |
| OSWorld | — | 23% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1144 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 65.4% |

## Reasoning

- Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)
- o3: 32.0 (#78)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | 6.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36.9% | 67.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 0.5% | 60.8% |
| CritPt | 0% | 1.4% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1266 | 1402 |
| DTBench | 57.9% | 84.8% |
| LMCA | 12% | 39.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.64 | 146.86 |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | 62.5 |
| SimpleBench | — | 53.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 38% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 13.1% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 29% |

## Math

- Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)
- o3: 50.2 (#58)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 7.8% | 84.4% |
| Omni-MATH | 37.3% | 71.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1287 | 1426 |
| MATH Level 5 | 62.3% | 97.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0% | 18.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 33.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 2.1% |

## Knowledge

- Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)
- o3: 54.6 (#52)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 51.8% | 81.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 74.2% | 85.9% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 50.7% | 75.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1235 | 1402 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 20.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 49.4% |
| Confabulations | — | 14.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.7% | — |

## Multimodal

- Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)
- o3: 41.4 (#36)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | 1214 |
| GeoBench | — | 74% |
| VPCT | — | 52% |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 34.2% | — |

## Multilingual

- Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)
- o3: 51.7 (#105)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1252 | 1401 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1255 | 1437 |
| LMArena French | 1282 | 1430 |
| LMArena German | 1272 | 1420 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1206 | 1403 |
| LMArena Korean | 1207 | 1370 |
| LMArena Russian | 1263 | 1406 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1278 | 1395 |

## Instruction Following

- Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)
- o3: 72.8 (#127)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 81.8% | 86.9% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1368 |

## Long Context

- Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)
- o3: 53.3 (#6)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | 36% | 88.9% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1265 | 1372 |
| CL-bench | — | 17.8% |

## Writing & Preference

- Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)
- o3: 63.5 (#64)

| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1279 | 1410 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1249 | 1359 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 783 | 1676 |
| WildBench | 78% | 86.1% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1280 | 1405 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.9% |

## FAQ

### Is Llama 4 Scout better than o3?

o3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 47.5 to 27.7 on the Noometry Index. Llama 4 Scout costs 23× less per token, which makes it the better buy when o3's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

### Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or o3?

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper. It lists at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; o3 lists at $2 and $8.

### Is Llama 4 Scout or o3 better for coding?

o3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.8 versus 20.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### Which has the bigger context window?

o3 does, with 200K tokens against 128K.

### How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and o3 share?

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and o3 has 63.