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Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B

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Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B Comparison Table

Evals updated July 24, 2026Pricing updated July 26, 2026

PropertyLlama 4 ScoutMistral Small 3.1 24B
OrganizationMetaMistral
Categoryopenopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateApr 2025Mar 2025
Context Window10.0M128K
Parameters109B24B
LicenseProprietaryApache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.100$0.351
Output $/1M$0.300$0.555
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
Classification
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Object Detection
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision

Llama 4 Scout vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B: Overview

Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout, released on April 5, 2025, is one of Meta AI’s first Llama 4 multimodal models, alongside Maverick. It accepts text + image inputs and produces text outputs, with a knowledge cutoff of August 2024. Scout is notable for its extremely large context window of 10 million tokens, making it well-suited for analyzing very long documents, extended conversations, or large codebases.

Architecturally, Scout uses a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) system with 16 experts, activating ~17B parameters per inference from a pool of ~109B total parameters, balancing capacity with efficiency. It officially supports 12 languages (including English, Arabic, French, Hindi, and Spanish), while offering multimodal reasoning for images (captioning, Q&A, recognition). Meta highlights that Scout can run on a single Nvidia H100 GPU, making it more accessible than larger-scale Llama 4 models. However, its output token limit is far smaller than its 10M input window, image input support is still constrained, and license restrictions apply for large-scale commercial deployments.

Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Mistral Small 3.1 24B, released on March 17, 2025, is an open-weight multimodal model from Mistral AI, distributed under the Apache-2.0 license. With around 24B parameters and a 128K token context window, it is available in both base and instruction-tuned (“Instruct”) variants. The model introduces vision support alongside text, enabling tasks like multimodal reasoning, captioning, and image-based Q&A.

It is multilingual, supporting many languages, and is optimized for fast responses, function calling, structured dialogue, and long-context reasoning. Despite its size, the model can be run locally in quantized formats, fitting on machines with ~32GB RAM, making it accessible to developers outside large cloud setups. However, the output length is smaller than the 128K input window, meaning long generations may require chaining. In addition, using full vision features or the maximum context window significantly increases compute costs, and performance on highly complex reasoning or enterprise-scale tasks still trails larger proprietary frontier models.