Model comparison

Llama 4 Scout vs o1-mini

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Llama 4 Scout Meta

27.4

Rank #323 Confirmed

o1-mini OpenAI

33.7

Rank #230 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Scout scores higher in 2 categories and o1-mini in 7 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where o1-mini leads 33.7 to 18.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 7.8% for Llama 4 Scout and 46.9% for o1-mini.
  • Llama 4 Scout has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Llama 4 Scout and o1-mini specifications
Llama 4 Scouto1-mini
ProviderMetaOpenAI
Noometry Index27.433.7
Released2025-04-052024-09-12
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window128K—
Max output4K—
Input $ / M tokens$0.10—
Output $ / M tokens$0.30—
Results tracked4339

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Category by category

Coding o1-mini leads

Llama 4 Scout: 19.9 (#334), o1-mini: 35.1 (#218)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
LMArena Coding12861362
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)9.1%—
Aider Polyglot—32.9%
SciCode17%—
WeirdML—36.3%
LiveBench Coding—48%
BigCodeBench Complete43.1%—
HumanEval+—89%
MBPP+—78.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Too close to call

Llama 4 Scout: 24.4 (#109), o1-mini: 24.3 (#112)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard28.1%—
Cybench—10%

Reasoning Too close to call

Llama 4 Scout: 9.2 (#339), o1-mini: 8.9 (#340)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
ARC-AGI-20%0.8%
ARC-AGI-10.5%14%
LMArena Hard Prompts12661333
Epoch Capabilities Index129.64135.82
SimpleBench—18.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark36.9%—
CritPt0%—
LiveBench Reasoning—72.3%
DTBench57.9%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—57.9%
LMCA12%—
ForecastBench57.5—
LiveBench—57.8%

Math o1-mini leads

Llama 4 Scout: 18.4 (#280), o1-mini: 33.7 (#168)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20257.8%46.9%
LMArena Math12861358
MATH Level 562.3%89.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0%1.7%
Omni-MATH37.3%—
LiveBench Math—62%

Knowledge o1-mini leads

Llama 4 Scout: 31.8 (#208), o1-mini: 34.8 (#180)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
GPQA Diamond51.8%62.4%
LMArena Expert12361316
MMLU-Pro74.2%—
Confabulations—18.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate7.7%—
GPQA (HELM)50.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Llama 4 Scout: 31.6 (#98), o1-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
LMArena Vision1118—
SpatialViz-Bench34.2%—

Multilingual o1-mini leads

Llama 4 Scout: 41.3 (#207), o1-mini: 43.8 (#177)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
LMArena Non-English12531289
LMArena Chinese12561314
LMArena French12831292
LMArena German12741278
LMArena Japanese12091245
LMArena Korean12071223
LMArena Russian12631283
LMArena Spanish12771302

Instruction Following Too close to call

Llama 4 Scout: 66.0 (#212), o1-mini: 67.0 (#200)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
LMArena Instruction Following12481304
LiveBench Instruction Following—65.4%
IFEval81.8%—

Long Context o1-mini leads

Llama 4 Scout: 27.5 (#289), o1-mini: 40.1 (#156)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
LMArena Longer Query12651321
Fiction.LiveBench36%—

Writing & Preference o1-mini leads

Llama 4 Scout: 37.1 (#256), o1-mini: 48.6 (#196)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 Scouto1-mini
LMArena Text12791317
LMArena Creative Writing12491244
LMArena Multi-Turn12811314
Short-Story Creative Writing—64.9%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing783—
WildBench78%—
LiveBench Language—40.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Scout better than o1-mini?

o1-mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.7 to 27.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Llama 4 Scout or o1-mini better for coding?

o1-mini scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.1 versus 19.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Scout and o1-mini share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Scout has 43 scored results on Noometry and o1-mini has 39.

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