Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct — Benchmarks
Benchmark scores for Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct aggregated from public leaderboards (13 boards), with how it ranks among open models and how it compares with its nearest neighbours. See hardware requirements for what you need to run it.
- #79 of 100 open models
- 13 boards · updated Oct 2026
- 100 = average open model
- Hardware requirements →
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct reasoning benchmarks
Multi-step logic and problem-solving — can the model think through a hard problem rather than recall an answer.
51.8%
51.8%
median 54.0%open leader 93.1%
Overall best: Gemini 4 Argon (high) 96.4%
48th percentile · #51 of 98 open · #221 of 300 all
IndependentEpoch AI ·
0.0%
0.0%
median 11.8%open leader 72.9%
Overall best: GPT 6 Astra Max 95.0%
6th percentile · #18 of 19 open · #220 of 222 all
IndependentEpoch AI ·
0.5%
0.5%
median 65.3%open leader 94.5%
Overall best: Claude Fable 5 (xhigh) 98.5%
lowest · #19 of 19 open · #231 of 232 all
IndependentEpoch AI ·
0.0%
0.0%
median 1.1%open leader 26.6%
Overall best: GPT 5.6 Sol Max 32.3%
15th percentile · #56 of 66 open · #203 of 219 all
Lab-reportedEpoch AI ·
57.9%
57.9%
median 67.7%open leader 93.9%
Overall best: Claude Opus 5.5 Max 98.9%
22nd percentile · #53 of 68 open · #177 of 214 all
Lab-reportedEpoch AI ·
36.0%
36.0%
median 61.1%open leader 86.1%
Overall best: GPT 5 (Aug 07, 2025, medium) 97.2%
13th percentile · #22 of 25 open · #54 of 58 all
IndependentEpoch AI ·
57.5
57.5
median 58.1open leader 61.9
Overall best: O3 (Apr 16, 2025, unspecified) 62.5
36th percentile · #17 of 26 open · #65 of 82 all
Lab-reportedEpoch AI ·
12.0%
12.0%
median 24.7%open leader 55.5%
Overall best: Claude Opus 5.5 Max 68.2%
15th percentile · #46 of 54 open · #160 of 176 all
Lab-reportedEpoch AI ·
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct coding benchmarks
Writing, editing, and fixing real code — measured by whether the resulting program actually runs and passes tests.
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct math benchmarks
Symbolic and quantitative problem-solving, from competition math to multi-step calculation.
7.8%
7.8%
median 52.8%open leader 98.6%
Overall best: Claude Fable 5 (high) 100.0%
28th percentile · #62 of 86 open · #238 of 283 all
IndependentEpoch AI ·
62.3%
62.3%
median 41.6%open leader 96.6%
Overall best: GPT 5 (Aug 07, 2025, high) 98.1%
71st percentile · #12 of 39 open · #53 of 107 all
IndependentEpoch AI ·
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct knowledge benchmarks
Breadth and depth of factual knowledge across many subjects, paired with the reasoning to apply it.
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct instruction following benchmarks
How precisely a model obeys explicit, verifiable instructions — format, length, and content constraints — and, more broadly, how much people prefer its responses head-to-head in blind human voting.
1321.5
1321.5
median 1321.5open leader 1487.1
Overall best: Gemini 4 Argon (High) 1523.9
50th percentile · #94 of 187 open · #250 of 405 all
ArenaArena ·
Score vs VRAM in the ≤96 GB tier
- Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
- Other models
- Best Score for its VRAM
#40 of 60 that fit ≤96 GB
Each dot is a model at the best quant that fits ≤96 GB. The line joins the models with the best Score for their VRAM; a dot below it is beaten by a model that needs no more memory.
Full ≤96 GB ranking →Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct vs its neighbours
Same boards for the nearest open models per llmrun Score. The highest score in each row is marked.
| Board | Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instructthis model | Qwen3.8 27Bbest in classQ4_K_M · 18 GB | Qwen2.5 72B Instructnearest by ScoreQ4_K_M · 49 GB | Mistral Large Instruct 2407nearest by ScoreQ4_K_M · 86 GB | C4ai Command A 03 2025nearest by ScoreQ4_K_M · 79 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| llmrun Score | 81.8 | 122.1 | 81.7 | 81.1 | 79.8 |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.8% | — | 49.1% | 49.0% | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.0% | 42.4% | — | — | — |
| ARC-AGI | 0.5% | 87.5% | — | — | — |
| CritPt | 0.0% | 5.4% | — | — | — |
| DTBench | 57.9% | 88.0% | 62.9% | 61.2% | 61.3% |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — | 57.5 | 57.1 | — |
| LMCA | 12.0% | 41.4% | 13.4% | — | 10.3% |
| SciCode | 17.0% | 46.6% | — | — | — |
| AIME 2024/2025 | 7.8% | — | 8.1% | 8.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 62.3% | — | 63.2% | 44.8% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 74.3% | — | 71.6% | 65.9% | — |
| LMArena Text | 1321.5 | 1437.8 | 1302.9 | 1314.4 | 1353.7 |
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Scores aggregated from public benchmark sources (Epoch AI: 11 boards, Arena: 1 board, TIGER-Lab: 1 board) — each linked from the benchmark pages. llmrun does not run these benchmarks. Percentiles and ranks are among open models in the llmrun catalogue; the median and leader marks refer to the same field.