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Meta: Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

MMeta: Llama 4 Scoutmeta-llama/llama-4-scoutVSQQwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instructqwen/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Meta: Llama 4 Scout wins on more metrics (6 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricMeta: Llama 4 ScoutQwen: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Intelligence Index13.514.3✓
Coding Index6.77.3✓
GPQA Diamond59%✓43%
Design Arena Elo940✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)100✓56
Latency316ms✓542ms
Input price /M$0.100$0.080✓
Output price /M$0.300✓$0.500
Context window10M✓256K
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