Llama 4 Scout vs Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview leads Llama 4 Scout on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.3 to 6.5, and Llama 4 Scout costs 1.2x less per output token ($0.50 vs $0.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 33 benchmarks have a result for both.
Llama 4 Scout or Hy3 preview: 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 1.2x cheaper ($0.50 vs $0.60 per million) and a larger context window (1.31M against 262K tokens).
- Shared results
- 33
- Llama 4 Scout only
- 49
- Hy3 preview only
- 3
- 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
Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview leads, 25.3 against 6.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Hy3 preview
Hy3 preview leads, 24.1 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
Llama 4 Scout $0.0004, Hy3 preview $0.0005 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, Hy3 preview not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 50.4 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- τ²-Bench Telecom: Llama 4 Scout 15.5% against Hy3 preview 92.7%, 77.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Llama 4 Scout $0.50 against Hy3 preview $0.60 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Llama 4 Scout takes 1.31M tokens, Hy3 preview 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 | Hy3 preview | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 4 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 2 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 5 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| General | 0 | 15 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 33 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index04
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 9.1% | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1357 | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| AA Coding Index | 8.2 | 58.8 | Hy3 preview |
| 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% | 34.1% | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1286 | 1421 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1286 | 1423 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1349 | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1356 | Only Hy3 preview measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.5 | 25.3 | Hy3 preview |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 129.6 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Hy3 preview | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 0.5 | 24.1 | Hy3 preview |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 15.5% | 92.7% | Hy3 preview |
| 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 index05
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Hy3 preview | 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% | 86.7% | Hy3 preview |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 3.8% | 27.8% | Hy3 preview |
| 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 | 1413 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1235 | 1422 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1293 | 1416 | Hy3 preview |
| 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 | Hy3 preview | 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 | 1424 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1286 | 1442 | Hy3 preview |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Hy3 preview | 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 | 1416 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1275 | 1405 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1285 | 1430 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1257 | 1397 | Hy3 preview |
| 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 | Hy3 preview | 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 index015
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Hy3 preview | 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% | 63.1% | Hy3 preview |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 27.7% | 64.7% | Hy3 preview |
| 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 | 1401 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1248 | 1383 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1249 | 1339 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Vision | 1118 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1304 | 1409 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1252 | 1390 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1255 | 1435 | Hy3 preview |
| 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 | 1425 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1278 | 1399 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1263 | 1399 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1265 | Not measured | Only Llama 4 Scout measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1280 | 1411 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1265 | 1402 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1269 | 1370 | Hy3 preview |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1242 | 1352 | Hy3 preview |
| 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 | Hy3 preview | 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 | Tencent Hy3 preview |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta Llama | Tencent |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | April 22, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.31M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.175 | $0.18 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | $1.276 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Llama 4 Scout better than Hy3 preview for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Llama 4 Scout for output tokens 1.2x cheaper ($0.50 vs $0.60 per million) and a larger context window (1.31M against 262K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Hy3 preview?
Llama 4 Scout costs $0.175 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Hy3 preview costs $0.18 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for Llama 4 Scout only.
Which has the bigger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Hy3 preview?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.31M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Llama 4 Scout vs Hy3 preview comparison based on?
33 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Llama 4 Scout's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Hy3 preview's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.