Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3: Tiny Open-Weights Face-Off

Llama 4 ScoutMistral Small 3
arenaElo12781266
humanEval76.384.8
sweBench3530
mmlu80.481.2
gpqa49.145.3
aime5045
Price in/out ($/M)$0.18 / $0.6$0.2 / $0.6

Our verdict

Scout gives you a 10M-token context. Mistral Small can't match that. Small 3 wins on reasoning and has an Apache 2.0 license. For bulk retrieval, Scout. For self-hosted classification and routing under tight hardware, Small 3.

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