Model comparison
Llama 3.2 90B vs Llama 4 Scout
Llama 3.2 90B and Llama 4 Scout score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.5 vs 27.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 3.2 90B scores higher in 2 categories and Llama 4 Scout in 3 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Llama 3.2 90B leads 21.7 to 9.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 39.4% for Llama 3.2 90B and 62.3% for Llama 4 Scout.
Side by side
| Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 27.5 | 27.7 |
| Released | 2024-09-24 | 2025-04-05 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | — | 128K |
| Max output | — | 4K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.10 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.30 |
| Results tracked | 9 | 43 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 20.2 (#339)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 9.1% |
| SciCode | — | 17% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1286 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 43.1% |
Agentic & Tool Use Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 30.0 (#80), Llama 4 Scout: 24.6 (#119)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 28.1% |
| BALROG | 27.3% | — |
Reasoning Llama 3.2 90B leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#217), Llama 4 Scout: 9.1 (#345)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 125.5 | 129.64 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 36.9% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 0.5% |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1266 |
| DTBench | — | 57.9% |
| LMCA | — | 12% |
| ForecastBench | — | 57.5 |
Math Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 11.1 (#308), Llama 4 Scout: 19.6 (#286)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.6% | 7.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | 39.4% | 62.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.3% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1287 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 21.7 (#274), Llama 4 Scout: 31.9 (#217)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 41% | 51.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 74.2% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1235 |
| MMLU | 80.3% | — |
Multimodal Llama 4 Scout leads
Llama 3.2 90B: 25.4 (#124), Llama 4 Scout: 32.2 (#102)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1000 | 1118 |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 34.2% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 41.0 (#212)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1255 |
| LMArena French | — | 1282 |
| LMArena German | — | 1272 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1207 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1263 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1278 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 65.8 (#217)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 81.8% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1248 |
Long Context Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#294)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 36% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1265 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Llama 3.2 90B: —, Llama 4 Scout: 37.0 (#261)
| Benchmark | Llama 3.2 90B | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1279 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1249 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 783 |
| WildBench | — | 78% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1280 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 3.2 90B better than Llama 4 Scout?
Llama 3.2 90B and Llama 4 Scout score almost the same on the Noometry Index (27.5 vs 27.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
How many benchmarks do Llama 3.2 90B and Llama 4 Scout share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 3.2 90B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Llama 4 Scout has 43.