1-bit Bonsai 8B vs Llama 4 Scout

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 8B· Llama 4 Scout

Quick Verdict

Pick 1-bit Bonsai 8B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Scout only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 10M context window.

1-bit Bonsai 8B is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 50 to 39. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

1-bit Bonsai 8B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 66 against 49.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 30% to 46%. Llama 4 Scout does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 64K for 1-bit Bonsai 8B.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderPrism MLMeta
PriceFree*Free*
SpeedN/A128 t/s
TTFTN/A0.70s
Context64K10M

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 8BLlama 4 Scout
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.039%
BrowseComp48%
OSWorld-Verified37%
Coding
HumanEval39%
SWE-bench Verified12%
LiveCodeBench11%
SWE-bench Pro15%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro60%
OfficeQA Pro55%
ReasoningLlama 4 Scout wins
MuSR50%43%
BBH60%
LongBench v264%
MRCRv266%
KnowledgeLlama 4 Scout wins
GPQA30%46%
MMLU47%
SuperGPQA44%
MMLU-Pro51%
HLE2%
FrontierScience44%
SimpleQA45%
Instruction Following1-bit Bonsai 8B wins
IFEval79.8%68%
Multilingual
MGSM63%
MMLU-ProX58%
Mathematics1-bit Bonsai 8B wins
MATH-50066%57%
AIME 202347%
AIME 202449%
AIME 202548%
HMMT Feb 202343%
HMMT Feb 202445%
HMMT Feb 202544%
BRUMO 202546%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Llama 4 Scout?

1-bit Bonsai 8B is ahead overall, 50 to 39. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 30% and 46%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 36.3 versus 30. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Llama 4 Scout?

1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 49.6. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 59.1 versus 50. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 8B or Llama 4 Scout?

1-bit Bonsai 8B has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 79.8 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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