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Llama 4 Scout vs Pixtral Large

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

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Llama 4 Scout

Meta

Overall 82
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Pixtral Large

Mistral

Overall 85
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Capability radar

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

CodingReasoningWritingVisionContextValue
Llama 4 ScoutPixtral Large
Comparison of Llama 4 Scout vs Pixtral Large
MetricLlama 4 ScoutPixtral Large
Input Price / 1M$0.15$2.00
Output Price / 1M$0.50$6.00
Combined Price / 1M$0.65$8.00
Context Window10,000,000128,000
Coding Score8383
Reasoning Score8584
Vision Score8293
AudioNoNo
StreamingYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
Latency Tierstandardstandard
Release Date3/5/202511/18/2024

Llama 4 Scout — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • 10M context
  • Open weights
  • Document RAG

Weaknesses

  • Extreme context has throughput tradeoffs

Pixtral Large — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Excellent vision
  • EU hosting

Weaknesses

  • General reasoning below Claude/GPT

Use Case Verdicts

Coding

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout scores 83 vs 83 on coding benchmarks.

General Chat

Pixtral Large

Pixtral Large leads on writing quality (80 vs 79).

Long Context

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout offers 10M tokens vs 128K.

Cost Efficiency

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper at $0.65/M combined vs $8.00/M.

Enterprise Use

Llama 4 Scout

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

Agent Workflows

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is better suited for agentic workflows with tool use and coding capability.