Devstral 2 2512 vs Llama 4 Scout
Devstral 2 2512 leads Llama 4 Scout on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 8.6 to 6.5, and Llama 4 Scout costs 4.0x less per output token ($0.50 vs $2.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 5 benchmarks have a result for both.
Devstral 2 2512 or Llama 4 Scout: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Devstral 2 2512 for a lower cost per solved task ($1.19 against $1.276).
- Shared results
- 5
- Devstral 2 2512 only
- 1
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 77
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Devstral 2 2512
Devstral 2 2512 leads, 8.6 against 6.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Devstral 2 2512
Devstral 2 2512 leads, 2.3 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 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Scout
Devstral 2 2512 $0.0014, Llama 4 Scout $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Devstral 2 2512
Devstral 2 2512 $1.19, Llama 4 Scout $1.276.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Devstral 2 2512 not benchmarked, Llama 4 Scout not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 27.0 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- SWE-bench Verified: Devstral 2 2512 53.8% against Llama 4 Scout 9.1%, 44.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Devstral 2 2512 $2.00 against Llama 4 Scout $0.50 per million output tokens, 4.0x apart.
- Context window
- Devstral 2 2512 takes 262K 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 | Devstral 2 2512 | Bars | Llama 4 Scout | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 5 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 53.8% | 9.1% | Devstral 2 2512 |
| AA Coding Index | 31.3 | 8.2 | Devstral 2 2512 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 51.8% | 38.5% | Devstral 2 2512 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 62.8% | Not measured | Only Devstral 2 2512 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 29.9% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 21.3% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| 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 30 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 8.6 | 6.5 | Devstral 2 2512 |
| 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 | Devstral 2 2512 | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 2.3 | 0.5 | Devstral 2 2512 |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 15.5% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | Not measured | 28.1% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 47.0% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 58.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 58.7% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 3.8% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| 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 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 36.9% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | 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 | Devstral 2 2512 | 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 6 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 750 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 765 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 772 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 896 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 789 | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | Llama 4 Scout | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | Not measured | 27.7% | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| 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 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Devstral 2 2512 | 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 | Mistral Devstral 2 2512 | Meta Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Mistral AI | Meta Llama |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | December 9, 2025 | April 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.31M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.40 | $0.175 |
| Output $/Mtok | $2.00 | $0.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.19 | $1.276 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Devstral 2 2512 better than Llama 4 Scout for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Devstral 2 2512 for a lower cost per solved task ($1.19 against $1.276).
Which is cheaper, Devstral 2 2512 or Llama 4 Scout?
Devstral 2 2512 costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $2.00 per million output tokens; Llama 4 Scout costs $0.175 and $0.50. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Devstral 2 2512 costs $1.19 and Llama 4 Scout $1.276.
Which has the bigger context window, Devstral 2 2512 or Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Devstral 2 2512 vs Llama 4 Scout comparison based on?
5 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Devstral 2 2512's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Llama 4 Scout's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.