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Llama 4 Scout Chat on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Llama 4 Scout Chat scores 85.4 on IFEval, placing it #177 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
85.4
0–100 scale
Rank
#177
of 600
Percentile
71th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
10.7
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Llama 4 Scout Chat highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Llama 4 Scout Chat sits at #177 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 10.7 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Llama 4 Scout Chat above the midpoint.

Meta AI models average 77.8 on this benchmark. Llama 4 Scout Chat is 7.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Meta AI model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Llama 4 Scout Chat is 0.2 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 85.4 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $4.66 per million input tokens, Llama 4 Scout Chat is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Doubao 1.5 Pro ByteDance 200000 $13.65 79.7
Llama 3.1 Instruct Meta AI 200000 $4.05 75.7
Hunyuan-Turbo Max Tencent 128000 $12.40 78.3
Llama 3.3 Instruct Meta AI 128000 $4.33 76.6
Llama 4 Scout Chat Meta AI 32768 $4.66 78.0
Mistral Small 3 Instruct Mistral AI 32768 $3.97 75.1
Qwen3 Base Alibaba Cloud 65536 $4.33 77.4

Other benchmarks for Llama 4 Scout Chat

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 79.2 204 66th
GPQA Diamond 77.1 104 83th
SWE-bench Verified 65.3 208 65th
HumanEval 83.2 158 74th
MATH-500 80.3 204 66th
AIME 2025 76.8 132 78th
LiveCodeBench 68.3 222 63th
TruthfulQA 78.7 229 62th
HellaSwag 87.5 159 74th
MMMU 76.4 128 79th
Arena Elo 1407.5 188 69th

FAQ

What score does Llama 4 Scout Chat get on IFEval?

Llama 4 Scout Chat scores 85.4 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Llama 4 Scout Chat rank on IFEval?

It ranks #177 of 600 models, in the 71st percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Llama 4 Scout Chat good at IFEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Llama 4 Scout Chat cost?

Llama 4 Scout Chat costs $4.66 per million input tokens and $18.41 per million output tokens.

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