Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B
Llama 4 Scout and Mistral Small 3.1 24B cost about the same per output token ($0.50 vs $0.555 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 36 benchmarks have a result for both.
Llama 4 Scout or Mistral Small 3.1 24B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Llama 4 Scout for output tokens 1.1x cheaper ($0.50 vs $0.555 per million) and a larger context window (1.31M against 128K tokens).
- Shared results
- 36
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 46
- Mistral Small 3.1 24B only
- 2
- Like-for-like categories
- 5 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
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a AA Intelligence Index result, 6.5.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.5.
Directional only
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 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout $0.0004, Mistral Small 3.1 24B $0.0006 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
- Llama 4 Scout not benchmarked, Mistral Small 3.1 24B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Math, 3.3 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Vision: Chinese: Llama 4 Scout 1106 against Mistral Small 3.1 24B 1155, 8.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Scout $0.50 against Mistral Small 3.1 24B $0.555 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens, Mistral Small 3.1 24B 128K.
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 | Llama 4 Scout | Bars | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 2 | 3 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 3 | 1 | ||
| General | 10 | 13 | ||
| All shared boards | 17 | 19 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index02
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 9.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| AA Coding Index | 8.2 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 38.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 29.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| SciCode | 21.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 1.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1286 | 1309 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1286 | 1301 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| Neither model has a result on the other 31 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.5 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.6 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.5 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 15.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 28.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 38 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index23
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 58.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 58.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 51.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| ARC-AGI | 0.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1266 | 1278 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1235 | 1257 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1293 | 1290 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1125 | 1119 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1148 | 1158 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 19.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 79.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 88.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| AA Math Index | 14.0 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 14.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 7.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MATH level 5 | 62.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1287 | 1261 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1286 | 1271 | Llama 4 Scout |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index31
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 69.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 72.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 46.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 55.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 57.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 50.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 23.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1278 | 1265 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | 1267 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1285 | 1271 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1257 | 1257 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| 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 | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 750 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 765 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 772 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 896 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 789 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index1013
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 34.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 50.6% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| IFBench | 39.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 27.7% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| DTBench | 57.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMCA | 12.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text | 1279 | 1277 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1248 | 1263 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1249 | 1252 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | 1136 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: English | 1304 | 1295 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1252 | 1255 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1255 | 1253 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: German | 1273 | 1266 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1206 | 1208 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1207 | 1207 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: French | 1283 | 1273 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1278 | 1284 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1263 | 1263 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1265 | 1242 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1280 | 1270 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1265 | 1299 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1269 | 1268 | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1242 | 1250 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1143 | 1157 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1106 | 1155 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1117 | 1132 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1102 | 1142 | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1153 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1155 | Only Mistral Small 3.1 24B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1126 | 1123 | Llama 4 Scout |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B | 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 | Meta Llama 4 Scout | Mistral Small 3.1 24B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Mistral AI |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | March 17, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.31M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.175 | $0.351 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.555 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.276 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 4 Scout better than Mistral Small 3.1 24B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Scout for output tokens 1.1x cheaper ($0.50 vs $0.555 per million) and a larger context window (1.31M against 128K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Mistral Small 3.1 24B?
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.175 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.1 24B costs $0.351 and $0.555. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Scout only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Mistral Small 3.1 24B?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B comparison based on?
36 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Llama 4 Scout's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Mistral Small 3.1 24B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.