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DeepSeek V4 vs Llama 4 Scout

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and use case fit.

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DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek

Overall 75
fast
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Llama 4 Scout

Meta

Overall 82
standard
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Capability radar

Normalized coding, reasoning, writing, vision, context, and value

CodingReasoningWritingVisionContextValue
DeepSeek V4Llama 4 Scout
Comparison of DeepSeek V4 vs Llama 4 Scout
MetricDeepSeek V4Llama 4 Scout
Input Price / 1M$0.30$0.15
Output Price / 1M$1.20$0.50
Combined Price / 1M$1.50$0.65
Context Window163,84010,000,000
Coding Score9283
Reasoning Score9085
Vision Score3582
AudioNoNo
StreamingYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
Latency Tierfaststandard
Release Date6/1/20263/5/2025

DeepSeek V4 — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Very low cost
  • Strong coding
  • Open-weight path

Weaknesses

  • Weaker multimodal

Llama 4 Scout — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • 10M context
  • Open weights
  • Document RAG

Weaknesses

  • Extreme context has throughput tradeoffs

Use Case Verdicts

Coding

DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek V4 scores 92 vs 83 on coding benchmarks.

General Chat

DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek V4 leads on writing quality (84 vs 79).

Long Context

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout offers 10M tokens vs 163.8K.

Cost Efficiency

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.65/M combined vs $1.50/M.

Enterprise Use

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout combines strong reasoning, tooling, and context for enterprise workloads.

Agent Workflows

DeepSeek V4

DeepSeek V4 is better suited for agentic workflows with tool use and coding capability.