Llama 4 Scout vs o1
o1 leads Llama 4 Scout on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 15.2 to 6.5, and Llama 4 Scout costs 120.0x less per output token ($0.50 vs $60.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 58 benchmarks have a result for both.
Llama 4 Scout or o1: 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 120.0x cheaper ($0.50 vs $60.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.31M against 200K tokens).
- Shared results
- 58
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 24
- o1 only
- 11
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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
o1
o1 leads, 15.2 against 6.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Llama 4 Scout has a AA Agentic Index result, 0.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
o1
o1 leads, 73.2% against 47.0%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
o1
o1 leads, 71.5% against 19.0%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
o1
o1 leads, 83.5% against 69.6%.
Same board, both measured
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 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout $0.0004, o1 $0.045 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, o1 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 47.1 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Llama 4 Scout 7.8% against o1 73.3%, 65.6 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Scout $0.50 against o1 $60.00 per million output tokens, 120.0x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens, o1 200K.
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 | o1 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 6 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 9 | ||
| Math | 0 | 7 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 9 | ||
| General | 0 | 24 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 58 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 61.7% | Only o1 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 9.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| AA Coding Index | 8.2 | 39.7 | o1 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 38.5% | 50.3% | o1 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 29.9% | 67.9% | o1 |
| SciCode | 21.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 1.5% | 12.9% | o1 |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 46.1% | Only o1 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1286 | 1367 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1286 | 1366 | o1 |
| SciCode | Not measured | 4.6% | Only o1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.5 | 15.2 | o1 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.6 | 141.7 | o1 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.5 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 15.5% | 62.6% | o1 |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 51.1% | Only o1 measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 28.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index09
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.0% | 73.2% | o1 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 58.8% | 77.4% | o1 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 58.7% | 74.7% | o1 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.8% | 7.0% | o1 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 51.8% | 76.8% | o1 |
| ARC-AGI | 0.5% | 30.7% | o1 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 40.1% | Only o1 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 10.0% | Only o1 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 37.0% | Only o1 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1266 | 1371 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1235 | 1361 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1293 | 1372 | o1 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1125 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1148 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 36.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index07
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 19.0% | 71.5% | o1 |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 79.2% | 90.4% | o1 |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 88.0% | 89.3% | o1 |
| 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% | 73.3% | o1 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 14.7% | Only o1 measured |
| MATH level 5 | 62.3% | 94.7% | o1 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1287 | 1388 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1286 | 1390 | o1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index09
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 69.6% | 83.5% | o1 |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 72.0% | 80.4% | o1 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 46.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 55.2% | 74.3% | o1 |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 57.8% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 50.9% | 96.5% | o1 |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 23.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.2% | 84.1% | o1 |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 41.1% | Only o1 measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 80.0% | Only o1 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1278 | 1369 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | 1355 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1285 | 1368 | o1 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1257 | 1328 | o1 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 750 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 768 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 773 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 896 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 790 | 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 index024
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | o1 | 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 | OpenAI o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | OpenAI |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | December 17, 2024 |
| Context window | 1.31M | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.175 | $15.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $60.00 |
| 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 o1 for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Scout for output tokens 120.0x cheaper ($0.50 vs $60.00 per million) and a larger context window (1.31M against 200K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or o1?
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.175 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; o1 costs $15.00 and $60.00. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Scout only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Scout or o1?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Scout vs o1 comparison based on?
58 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Llama 4 Scout's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and o1's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.