Gemini 1.5 Pro vs Llama 4 Scout: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 1.5 Pro is developed by Google, while Llama 4 Scout comes from Meta. Gemini 1.5 Pro was released in May 2024, and Llama 4 Scout followed 11 months later in April 2025. Llama 4 Scout has a published size of about 109 billion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 1.5 Pro.
The two models share 7 published benchmarks. Gemini 1.5 Pro leads on 4 of them, Llama 4 Scout on 3. The widest gaps are on MATH, where Gemini 1.5 Pro scores 86.5% against 50.3%; MMLU, where Gemini 1.5 Pro scores 85.9% against 79.6%. Averaged across everything we track, Gemini 1.5 Pro sits at 72.6% and Llama 4 Scout at 67.3%.
Llama 4 Scout is the cheaper API at $0.18 per million input tokens and $0.59 per million output tokens, roughly 14 times cheaper than Gemini 1.5 Pro at $2.50 and $10. Llama 4 Scout takes the larger context window at 10M tokens, compared with 2M for Gemini 1.5 Pro. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Gemini 1.5 Pro | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | |
| Release Date | May 1, 2024 | April 5, 2025 |
| Parameters | — | 109B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 2.1M | 10.0M |
| Context (output) | 8K | 10.0M |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.50 | $0.18 |
| Output Price / 1M | $10.00 | $0.59 |
| Average Score | 72.6% | 67.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| MATH | 86.5% | 50.3% |
| MMLU | 85.9% | 79.6% |
| MMMU | 65.9% | 69.4% |
| MGSM | 87.5% | 90.6% |
| MathVista | 68.1% | 70.7% |
| GPQA | 59.1% | 57.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 75.8% | 74.3% |
Visual Benchmark Comparison
Verdict
Llama 4 Scout leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 1.5 Pro — 0.7, Llama 4 Scout — 0.7.
Llama 4 Scout is 16.2x cheaper: input $0.18/1M vs $2.50/1M tokens.
Llama 4 Scout supports a larger context: 10M vs 2M tokens.
Llama 4 Scout is newer: released 4/5/2025 vs 5/1/2024.
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