Llama 4 Scout Instruct on HellaSwag: score, rank and what it means
Llama 4 Scout Instruct scores 88.4 on HellaSwag, placing it #127 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Score distribution
The chart shows the top 10 models on HellaSwag, with Llama 4 Scout Instruct highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.
Top 10 leaderboard
| # | Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 Max | OpenAI | 1000000 | $21.39 | 89.2 |
| 2 | GPT-5.2 Turbo | OpenAI | 1000000 | $20.73 | 87.4 |
| 3 | GPT-5.2 Pro | OpenAI | 2000000 | $21.32 | 89.6 |
| 4 | Claude Opus 4.5 Pro | Anthropic | 200000 | $20.98 | 89.1 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 Reasoning | Anthropic | 400000 | $19.48 | 87.7 |
| 6 | Grok 4 Reasoning | xAI | 2000000 | $19.67 | 87.8 |
| 7 | GPT-5.2 Vision | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.03 | 87.4 |
| 8 | Gemini 3 Pro Turbo | Google DeepMind | 400000 | $19.62 | 86.4 |
| 9 | GPT-5.1 Reasoning | OpenAI | 400000 | $20.27 | 88.3 |
| 10 | o4 Pro | OpenAI | 1000000 | $19.37 | 87.3 |
What this score means
On HellaSwag, Llama 4 Scout Instruct sits at #127 of 600. The leader, GPT-5.2 Max, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 7.7 points. The median model in this index scores 83.6, which puts Llama 4 Scout Instruct above the midpoint.
Meta AI models average 80.6 on this benchmark. Llama 4 Scout Instruct is 7.8 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Meta AI model.
Among multimodal models, the average is 86.8. Llama 4 Scout Instruct is 1.6 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 88.4 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 $4.59 per million input tokens, Llama 4 Scout Instruct is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on HellaSwag. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.
| Model | Provider | Context | Input / 1M | Avg score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 Vision | Anthropic | 128000 | $13.01 | 79.2 |
| Kimi K2 Base | Moonshot AI | 65536 | $4.82 | 79.2 |
| MiniMax-M2 Instruct | MiniMax | 128000 | $5.11 | 79.4 |
| Llama 3.3 | Meta AI | 128000 | $4.56 | 78.2 |
| Llama 4 Scout Instruct | Meta AI | 32768 | $4.59 | 79.1 |
| QwQ Instruct | Alibaba Cloud | 65536 | $4.62 | 79.0 |
| Reka Core Reasoning | Reka AI | 32768 | $13.11 | 78.5 |
Other benchmarks for Llama 4 Scout Instruct
| Benchmark | Score | Rank | Percentile | Relative |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 80.0 | 183 | 70th | |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.1 | 121 | 80th | |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.1 | 108 | 82th | |
| HumanEval | 81.6 | 194 | 68th | |
| MATH-500 | 84.7 | 114 | 81th | |
| AIME 2025 | 77.3 | 125 | 79th | |
| LiveCodeBench | 73.8 | 113 | 81th | |
| IFEval | 85.2 | 185 | 69th | |
| TruthfulQA | 79.9 | 181 | 70th | |
| MMMU | 73.0 | 221 | 63th | |
| Arena Elo | 1429.1 | 122 | 80th |
FAQ
What score does Llama 4 Scout Instruct get on HellaSwag?
Llama 4 Scout Instruct scores 88.4 on HellaSwag in this index. The benchmark average is 81.4 and the top score is 96.1.
How does Llama 4 Scout Instruct rank on HellaSwag?
It ranks #127 of 600 models, in the 79th percentile. The leader is GPT-5.2 Max at 96.1.
Is Llama 4 Scout Instruct good at HellaSwag?
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 HellaSwag score calculated?
HellaSwag is a commonsense 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 Instruct cost?
Llama 4 Scout Instruct costs $4.59 per million input tokens and $20.15 per million output tokens.