Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.6 Plus

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

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

Llama 4 Scout· Qwen3.6 Plus

Quick Verdict

Pick Qwen3.6 Plus if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Llama 4 Scout only becomes the better choice if you need the larger 10M context window or you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.

Qwen3.6 Plus is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 69 to 44. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Qwen3.6 Plus's sharpest advantage is in multilingual, where it averages 84.7 against 58. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is MMLU-Pro, 51% to 88.5%.

Qwen3.6 Plus is the reasoning model in the pair, while Llama 4 Scout is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Llama 4 Scout gives you the larger context window at 10M, compared with 1M for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Operational tradeoffs

ProviderMetaAlibaba
PriceFree*Free*
Speed128 t/sN/A
TTFT0.70sN/A
Context10M1M

Decision framing

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BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutQwen3.6 Plus
AgenticQwen3.6 Plus wins
Terminal-Bench 2.039%61.6%
Claw-Eval58.7%
QwenClawBench57.2%
QwenWebBench1502
TAU3-Bench70.7%
VITA-Bench44.3%
DeepPlanning41.5%
Toolathlon39.8%
MCP Atlas48.2%
MCP-Tasks74.1%
WideResearch74.3%
OSWorld-Verified62.5%
Coding
HumanEval39%
SWE-bench Verified78.8%
SWE-bench Pro56.6%
SWE Multilingual73.8%
LiveCodeBench v687.1%
NL2Repo37.9%
Multimodal & GroundedQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMMU-Pro60%78.8%
OfficeQA Pro55%
MMMU86.0%
RealWorldQA85.4%
OmniDocBench 1.591.2%
Video-MME (with subtitle)87.8%
Video-MME (w/o subtitle)84.2%
MathVision88.0%
We-Math89.0%
DynaMath88.0%
MStar83.3%
SimpleVQA67.3%
ChatCVQA81.5%
MMLongBench-Doc62.0%
CC-OCR83.4%
AI2D_TEST94.4%
CountBench97.6%
RefCOCO (avg)93.5%
ODINW1351.8%
ERQA65.7%
VideoMMMU84.0%
MLVU (M-Avg)86.7%
ScreenSpot Pro68.2%
ReasoningQwen3.6 Plus wins
MuSR43%
BBH60%
AI-Needle68.3%
LongBench v262%
KnowledgeQwen3.6 Plus wins
SuperGPQA44%71.6%
MMLU-Pro51%88.5%
SimpleQA45%
GPQA90.4%
MMLU-Redux94.5%
C-Eval93.3%
HLE28.8%
Instruction FollowingQwen3.6 Plus wins
IFEval68%94.3%
IFBench74.2%
MultilingualQwen3.6 Plus wins
MMLU-ProX58%84.7%
NOVA-6357.9%
INCLUDE85.1%
PolyMath77.4%
VWT2k-lite84.3%
MAXIFE88.2%
Mathematics
AIME 202548%
HMMT Feb 202343%
HMMT Feb 202445%
HMMT Feb 202544%
BRUMO 202546%
AIME2695.3%
HMMT Feb 202596.7%
HMMT Nov 202594.6%
HMMT Feb 202687.8%
MMAnswerBench83.8%
Frequently Asked Questions (7)

Which is better, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus is ahead overall, 69 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is MMLU-Pro, where the scores are 51% and 88.5%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 66 versus 47.6. Inside this category, MMLU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 43. Llama 4 Scout stays close enough that the answer can still flip depending on your workload.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 62 versus 39. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.8 versus 57.8. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 94.3 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 Plus?

Qwen3.6 Plus has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 84.7 versus 58. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: April 2, 2026

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