Grok 3 Mini vs Llama 4 Scout

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

Llama 4 Scout finishes one point ahead overall, 24 to 23. That is enough to call, but not enough to treat as a blowout. This matchup comes down to a few meaningful edges rather than one model dominating the board.

Llama 4 Scout's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 43.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 21.7% to 45%. Grok 3 Mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Grok 3 Mini is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.30 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Llama 4 Scout. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Llama 4 Scout if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.

Agentic

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Coding

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

Llama 4 Scout

32.8

41.5%
LiveCodeBench
32.8%
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HumanEval
39%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Llama 4 Scout

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

Llama 4 Scout

43.9

21.7%
SimpleQA
45%
Coming soon
MuSR
43%

Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

Llama 4 Scout

61.4

66.2%
GPQA
57.2%
78.9%
MMLU-Pro
74.3%
Coming soon
MMLU
47%
Coming soon
SuperGPQA
44%
Coming soon
OpenBookQA
42%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Llama 4 Scout

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

Llama 4 Scout

46

39.7%
AIME 2024
49%
Coming soon
AIME 2023
47%
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AIME 2025
48%
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HMMT Feb 2023
43%
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HMMT Feb 2024
45%
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HMMT Feb 2025
44%
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BRUMO 2025
46%

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout is ahead overall, 24 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 21.7% and 45%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Scout?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 61.4. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Scout?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 41.5 versus 32.8. Inside this category, LiveCodeBench is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 46 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Grok 3 Mini or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 43.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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