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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Llama 4 Scout: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Llama 4 Scout is significantly cheaper at $0.10/$0.30 per million tokens vs $1.25/$10.00. Gemini 2.5 Pro is stronger for coding with a coding ELO of 1350 vs 1230. Llama 4 Scout is faster at 110 tokens/sec vs 70 tokens/sec. Gemini 2.5 Pro ranks higher overall with an Arena ELO of 1340 vs 1250. Llama 4 Scout offers a larger 10486K context window vs 1049K.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureGemini 2.5 ProLlama 4 Scout
ProviderGoogleMeta
Input Price / 1M tokens$1.25$0.100
Output Price / 1M tokens$10.00$0.300
Context Window1.048576M10.48576M
Max Output Tokens65,53632,768
Arena ELO1,3401,250
Coding ELO1,3501,230
TTFT (ms)400200
Tokens/sec70110
MultimodalYesYes
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesYes
When to Use Gemini 2.5 Pro

Choose Gemini 2.5 Pro when you need: 1m token context window, excellent reasoning capabilities, strong coding performance, native multimodal support. It excels at coding, reasoning, long-context, multimodal tasks.

Strengths:

  • 1M token context window
  • Excellent reasoning capabilities
  • Strong coding performance
  • Native multimodal support

Best for:

codingreasoninglong-contextmultimodal
When to Use Llama 4 Scout

Choose Llama 4 Scout when you need: 10m token context window, very affordable, open-source and self-hostable, good general performance. It excels at long-context, chatbots, cost-sensitive, open-source tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two. Its 10486K context window is larger, making it better for long-document processing.

Strengths:

  • 10M token context window
  • Very affordable
  • Open-source and self-hostable
  • Good general performance

Best for:

long-contextchatbotscost-sensitiveopen-source

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