Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct leads Llama 4 Scout on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 9.6 to 6.5, at about the same output price ($0.44 vs $0.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 15 benchmarks have a result for both.
Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Llama 4 Scout for a larger context window (1.31M against 262K tokens) and work measured by SWE-bench Verified or LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 15
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 67
- Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct only
- 1
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 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
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct leads, 9.6 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
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
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct leads, 1087 against 750.
Same board, both measured
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
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
Llama 4 Scout $0.0004, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct $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
- Llama 4 Scout not benchmarked, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 33.5 points apart on average over 3 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- SWE-bench Verified: Llama 4 Scout 9.1% against Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 60.4%, 51.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Scout $0.50 against Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct $0.44 per million output tokens, 1.1x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens, Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 262K.
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 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 0 | 1 tie | |
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 3 | ||
| General | 1 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 3 | 11 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 9.1% | 60.4% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| SWE-bench Lite | Not measured | 49.7% | Only Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 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% | 40.3% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| SciCode | 21.3% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 1.5% | 15.2% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1286 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1286 | Not measured | 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 index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.5 | 9.6 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.6 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.5 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 15.5% | 34.5% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| 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 index10
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 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% | 51.6% | Llama 4 Scout |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.8% | 3.8% | Tie |
| 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 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1235 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1293 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| 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 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 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 | 29.0 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 14.0% | 29.0% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| 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 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1286 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 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% | 70.6% | Llama 4 Scout |
| LMArena Text: science | 1278 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1285 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1257 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 750 | 1087 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Design Arena: UI components | 765 | 1043 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| Design Arena: game dev | 772 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 896 | 1085 | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| 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 index11
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 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% | 32.7% | Llama 4 Scout |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 27.7% | 32.7% | Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
| 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 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1248 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1249 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1304 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1252 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1255 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1273 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1206 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1207 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1283 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1278 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1263 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1265 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1280 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1265 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1269 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1242 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| 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 Coder 30B A3B Instruct | 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 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct 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 Coder 30B A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | July 31, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.31M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.175 | $0.11 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.44 |
| 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 Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Scout for a larger context window (1.31M against 262K tokens) and work measured by SWE-bench Verified or LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.175 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct costs $0.11 and $0.44. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Scout only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct comparison based on?
15 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Llama 4 Scout's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.