Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.5-Flash
Updated October 21, 2026. 45 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Llama 4 Scout for coding: it scores 9.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 6.2 for Qwen3.5-Flash.
Pick Qwen3.5-Flash when output tokens cost 1.2x less, or when a solved task costs $0.40 against $1.276.
- Shared results
- 45
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 35
- Qwen3.5-Flash only
- 10
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout scores 9.1 against 6.2.
One benchmark behind each score
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
Qwen3.5-Flash
Qwen3.5-Flash leads, 82.8% against 47.0%.
Same board, both measured
Math
AIME
Qwen3.5-Flash
Qwen3.5-Flash leads, 92.5% against 19.0%.
Same board, both measured
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
Qwen3.5-Flash
Qwen3.5-Flash leads, 84.1% 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 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.5-Flash
Llama 4 Scout $0.0003, Qwen3.5-Flash $0.0002 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Qwen3.5-Flash
Llama 4 Scout $1.276, Qwen3.5-Flash $0.40.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Llama 4 Scout 9.1 from 1 benchmark, Qwen3.5-Flash 6.2 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Math, 47.9 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Llama 4 Scout 7.8% against Qwen3.5-Flash 84.4%, 76.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Scout $0.30 against Qwen3.5-Flash $0.26 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens, Qwen3.5-Flash 1M.
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 | Qwen3.5-Flash | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 6 | ||
| Math | 0 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 10 | ||
| General | 0 | 21 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 45 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 9.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1244 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| AA Coding Index | 8.2 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 38.5% | 83.3% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.4% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash 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 |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 265.9 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1286 | 1412 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1286 | 1416 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1229 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1291 | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.5 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.6 | 143.5 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | 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 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 37 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.0% | 82.8% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 58.8% | 81.9% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| 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% | 82.3% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| ARC-AGI | 0.5% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 14.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 20.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1266 | 1403 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1235 | 1407 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1293 | 1409 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1125 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1148 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 19.0% | 92.5% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| 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% | 84.4% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 18.2% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| MATH level 5 | 62.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1287 | 1407 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1286 | 1413 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index010
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 69.6% | 84.1% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 72.0% | 84.3% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 56.0% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 46.8% | 63.6% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 55.2% | 72.2% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 57.8% | 67.4% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 50.9% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 23.3% | 33.0% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 20.3% | Only Qwen3.5-Flash measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1278 | 1415 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | 1407 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1285 | 1398 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1257 | 1394 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 750 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 767 | 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 index021
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 34.8% | 42.5% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 50.6% | 70.6% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| 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% | 82.9% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMCA | 12.0% | 29.1% | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text | 1279 | 1397 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1248 | 1374 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1249 | 1343 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1304 | 1404 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1252 | 1385 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1255 | 1445 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: German | 1273 | 1390 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1206 | 1369 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1207 | 1344 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: French | 1283 | 1413 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1278 | 1400 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1263 | 1380 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1265 | 1376 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1280 | 1393 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1265 | 1392 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1269 | 1369 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1242 | 1347 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1143 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1106 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1117 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1102 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1126 | Not measured | 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 | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3.5-Flash | 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
Qwen3.5-Flash costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.5-Flash costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.5-Flash 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 | Qwen3.5-Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | February 25, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.31M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.065 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.30 | $0.26 |
| Coding index | 9.1 | 6.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.276 | $0.40 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 4 Scout better than Qwen3.5-Flash for coding?
Pick Llama 4 Scout for coding: it scores 9.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 6.2 for Qwen3.5-Flash. Pick Qwen3.5-Flash when output tokens cost 1.2x less, or when a solved task costs $0.40 against $1.276.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.5-Flash?
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5-Flash costs $0.065 and $0.26. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Llama 4 Scout costs $1.276 and Qwen3.5-Flash $0.40.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.5-Flash?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.5-Flash comparison based on?
45 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Llama 4 Scout's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Qwen3.5-Flash's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.