DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Llama 4 Scout
Updated October 21, 2026. 7 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp for coding: it scores 37.6 on the Vibe Coding Index against 9.1 for Llama 4 Scout.
Pick Llama 4 Scout when output tokens cost 2.2x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.31M against 1.05M tokens.
- Shared results
- 7
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp only
- 7
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 73
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp scores 37.6 against 9.1.
One benchmark behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads, 34.8 against 6.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads, 47.5 against 0.5.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a GPQA Diamond result, 47.0%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a AIME result, 19.0%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a MMLU Pro result, 69.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a Design Arena: websites result, 750.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens against 1.05M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Scout
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $0.0005, Llama 4 Scout $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has the number, $1.276.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 37.6 from 1 benchmark, Llama 4 Scout 9.1 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- General, 53.6 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp 65.0 against Llama 4 Scout 8.2, 56.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp $0.6468 against Llama 4 Scout $0.30 per million output tokens, 2.2x apart.
- Context window
- DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp takes 1.05M tokens, Llama 4 Scout 1.31M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Bars | Llama 4 Scout | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 7 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 9.1% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveBench coding | 37.6% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| AA Coding Index | 65.0 | 8.2 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 29.9% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| SciCode | 49.7% | 21.3% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 1.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1286 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1286 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 34.8 | 6.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 129.6 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 47.5 | 0.5 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| LiveBench research | 69.2% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LiveBench browser | 64.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 39.0% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 15.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 47.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 85.4% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.3% | 58.7% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 34.5% | 3.8% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 51.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 0.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1266 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1235 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1293 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1125 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1148 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 19.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.2% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 88.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 14.0 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 14.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 7.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 62.3% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1287 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1286 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 69.6% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 72.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 55.2% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 57.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.9% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 23.3% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 75.2% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1278 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1275 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1285 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1257 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 750 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 767 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 773 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 896 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 790 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveBench design | 70.7% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.5% | Not measured | Only DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 50.6% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 39.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 81.3% | 27.7% | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp |
| DTBench | Not measured | 57.9% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 12.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 36.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1279 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1248 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1249 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1118 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1304 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1252 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1255 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1273 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1206 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1207 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1283 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1278 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1263 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1265 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1280 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1265 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1269 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1242 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1143 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1106 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1117 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1102 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1126 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Scout costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Llama 4 Scout costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Llama 4 Scout costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp | Meta Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | DeepSeek | Meta Llama |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | August 21, 2026 | April 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.31M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.2156 | $0.10 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.6468 | $0.30 |
| Coding index | 37.6 | 9.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $1.276 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp better than Llama 4 Scout for coding?
Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp for coding: it scores 37.6 on the Vibe Coding Index against 9.1 for Llama 4 Scout. Pick Llama 4 Scout when output tokens cost 2.2x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.31M against 1.05M tokens.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or Llama 4 Scout?
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.2156 per million input tokens and $0.6468 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 and $0.30. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Scout only.
Which has the bigger context window, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp or Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 1.05M.
How many benchmarks is the DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Llama 4 Scout comparison based on?
7 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Llama 4 Scout's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.