Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Llama 4 Scout vs Muse Wonder: accuracy, speed and price

Muse Wonder is more accurate; Llama 4 Scout is cheaper.

MetaLlama 4 Scout41.2% score · #54$0.00037 per question15 tok/sMetaMuse Wonder78.8% score · #7$0.021 per question175 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

  • Muse Wonder is more accurate: 78.8% against 41.2% on the same 80 questions, a 37.5-point gap that is statistically significant.
  • Llama 4 Scout is 58× cheaper per question as billed ($0.00037 vs $0.021), reasoning tokens included.
  • Muse Wonder generates text 11× faster: 175 tokens per second against 15.
  • Llama 4 Scout starts answering sooner: 1.2 s to the first token, against 16.1 s for Muse Wonder.
  • Llama 4 Scout accepts more context: 1.3M tokens against 1M.

Which should you choose?

Choose Llama 4 Scout for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0009 against $0.027), a quicker first token, open weights you can run yourself and a 1.3M-token context window. Choose Muse Wonder for the most accurate answers of the two and faster streaming. The widest subject gap is in engineering: Muse Wonder answered 11 of 15 correctly, Llama 4 Scout 2 of 15. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.

Accuracy gap -37.5 points (z = -4.84). A winner is called only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.

Head to head

Same questions, same prompt, same API

MeasureLlama 4 ScoutMuse WonderEdge
Verification scoreHigher is better41.2%78.8%Muse Wonder
Cost per questionLower is better$0.00037$0.021Llama 4 Scout
Output speedHigher is better15175Muse Wonder
Time to first tokenLower is better1.2 s16.1 sLlama 4 Scout
End-to-end response timeLower is better25.6 s20.8 sMuse Wonder
Tokens per questionLower is better7231,014Llama 4 Scout
Context windowHigher is better1.3M1MLlama 4 Scout

Side by side

Bars are scaled to the larger of the two values. The winner on each measure is marked in bold.

Every measure

Llama 4 Scout first, Muse Wonder second

Verification scorehigher is better
Llama 4 Scout41.2%
Muse Wonder78.8%
Cost per questionlower is better
Llama 4 Scout$0.00037
Muse Wonder$0.021
Output speedhigher is better
Llama 4 Scout15
Muse Wonder175
Time to first tokenlower is better
Llama 4 Scout1.2 s
Muse Wonder16.1 s
End-to-end response timelower is better
Llama 4 Scout25.6 s
Muse Wonder20.8 s
Tokens per questionlower is better
Llama 4 Scout723
Muse Wonder1,014
Context windowhigher is better
Llama 4 Scout1.3M
Muse Wonder1M

Score vs. cost per question

Both models in color, every other model in grey

Most attractive quadrant0255075100$0.00001$0.0001$0.001$0.01$0.10Cost per question (USD, log) →Verification score (%) →Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BCommand AReka Flash 3Gemma 4 26B A4BGemma 4 31BQwen3.5 397B A17BHermes 4 405BMuse WonderGrok 4.7o3gpt-oss-20bMinistral 3 3B 2512Nova Micro 1.0Phi 4Granite 4.2 8BHy3GLM 5.3 FlashSolar Pro 4Trinity Large ThinkingMiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Claude Opus 5.5GPT-6.1 SolGemini 4 ArgonGPT-5.4GPT-6 Lunagpt-oss-120bLlama 4 Maverick

Specifications and pricing

From OpenRouter's catalogue, plus the leaderboard's test dates

SpecificationLlama 4 ScoutMuse Wonder
CreatorMetaMeta
Released5 Apr 202512 Oct 2026
WeightsOpen weights—
ReasoningNoYes
Inputtext, imagetext, image, video, file, audio
Outputtexttext
Context window1.3M tokens1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff31 Aug 2024—
List price in / out per 1M$0.1 / $0.3$4 / $20
Blended price per 1M (3:1)$0.15$8.00
Cheapest hostDeepInfra · $0.08 / $0.24Meta · $4 / $20
Hosts on OpenRouter21
Last tested27 Oct 202627 Oct 2026

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Llama 4 Scout vs Muse Wonder: frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Scout better than Muse Wonder?
Muse Wonder is more accurate: it answered 63 of 80 questions correctly (78.8%) against 33 of 80 (41.2%) for Llama 4 Scout. Muse Wonder is more accurate; Llama 4 Scout is cheaper.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Muse Wonder?
Llama 4 Scout is cheaper: $0.00037 per question as billed, against $0.021. List prices: Llama 4 Scout $0.1 in / $0.3 out, Muse Wonder $4 in / $20 out per million tokens.
Which is faster, Llama 4 Scout or Muse Wonder?
Muse Wonder is faster at 175 output tokens per second, against 15. Time to first token: 1.2 s for Llama 4 Scout, 16.1 s for Muse Wonder.
Which has the larger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Muse Wonder?
Llama 4 Scout, with 1.3M tokens against 1M.