Is Llama 4 Scout better than Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

On accuracy they are statistically tied: Llama 4 Scout scored 41.2% and Qwen3.6 35B A3B 37.5% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Llama 4 Scout costs less per question.

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper: $0.00037 per question as billed, against $0.0037. List prices: Llama 4 Scout $0.1 in / $0.3 out, Qwen3.6 35B A3B $0.1 in / $0.95 out per million tokens.

Which is faster, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Qwen3.6 35B A3B is faster at 135 output tokens per second, against 15. Time to first token: 1.2 s for Llama 4 Scout, 0.4 s for Qwen3.6 35B A3B.

Which has the larger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?

Llama 4 Scout, with 1.3M tokens against 262k.

Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: accuracy, speed and price

Similar accuracy; Llama 4 Scout costs less per question.

MetaLlama 4 Scout41.2% score · #54$0.00037 per question15 tok/s

QwenQwen3.6 35B A3B37.5% score · #59$0.0037 per question135 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

Accuracy is too close to call: Llama 4 Scout scored 41.2% and Qwen3.6 35B A3B 37.5% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
Llama 4 Scout is 10× cheaper per question as billed ($0.00037 vs $0.0037), reasoning tokens included.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B generates text 8.8× faster: 135 tokens per second against 15.
Qwen3.6 35B A3B starts answering sooner: 0.4 s to the first token, against 1.2 s for Llama 4 Scout.
Llama 4 Scout accepts more context: 1.3M tokens against 262k.

Which should you choose?

Choose Llama 4 Scout for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0009 against $0.0099), shorter outputs (about 723 tokens per question against 3,563) and a 1.3M-token context window. Choose Qwen3.6 35B A3B for faster streaming, a quicker first token and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (10 against 2).

Accuracy gap +3.7 points (z = 0.49). 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

Measure	Llama 4 Scout	Qwen3.6 35B A3B	Edge
Verification scoreHigher is better	41.2%	37.5%	Too close to call
Cost per questionLower is better	$0.00037	$0.0037	Llama 4 Scout
Output speedHigher is better	15	135	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Time to first tokenLower is better	1.2 s	0.4 s	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
End-to-end response timeLower is better	25.6 s	5.6 s	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Tokens per questionLower is better	723	3,563	Llama 4 Scout
Context windowHigher is better	1.3M	262k	Llama 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, Qwen3.6 35B A3B second

Verification scorehigher is better

Llama 4 Scout41.2%

Qwen3.6 35B A3B37.5%

Cost per questionlower is better

Llama 4 Scout$0.00037

Qwen3.6 35B A3B$0.0037

Output speedhigher is better

Llama 4 Scout15

Qwen3.6 35B A3B135

Time to first tokenlower is better

Llama 4 Scout1.2 s

Qwen3.6 35B A3B0.4 s

End-to-end response timelower is better

Llama 4 Scout25.6 s

Qwen3.6 35B A3B5.6 s

Tokens per questionlower is better

Llama 4 Scout723

Qwen3.6 35B A3B3,563

Context windowhigher is better

Llama 4 Scout1.3M

Qwen3.6 35B A3B262k

Score vs. cost per question

Both models in color, every other model in grey

Results by subject and dataset

Questions answered correctly. Small samples: a gap of one or two questions is noise.

Subject	Questions	Llama 4 Scout	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Science	30	13/30	9/30
Engineering	15	2/15	2/15
Medicine	11	6/11	6/11
Economics	9	4/9	5/9
Law	6	2/6	1/6
Humanities & social science	9	6/9	7/9
SuperGPQA dataset	50	13/50	9/50
MMLU-Pro dataset	30	20/30	21/30

Specifications and pricing

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

Specification	Llama 4 Scout	Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Creator	Meta	Qwen
Released	5 Apr 2025	27 Apr 2026
Weights	Open weights	Open weights
Reasoning	No	Yes
Input	text, image	text, image, video
Output	text	text
Context window	1.3M tokens	262k tokens
Knowledge cutoff	31 Aug 2024	—
List price in / out per 1M	$0.1 / $0.3	$0.1 / $0.95
Blended price per 1M (3:1)	$0.15	$0.31
Cheapest host	DeepInfra · $0.08 / $0.24	Darkbloom · $0.05 / $0.7
Hosts on OpenRouter	2	10
Last tested	27 Oct 2026	26 Oct 2026

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Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.6 35B A3B: frequently asked questions

Is Llama 4 Scout better than Qwen3.6 35B A3B?: On accuracy they are statistically tied: Llama 4 Scout scored 41.2% and Qwen3.6 35B A3B 37.5% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Llama 4 Scout costs less per question.
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?: Llama 4 Scout is cheaper: $0.00037 per question as billed, against $0.0037. List prices: Llama 4 Scout $0.1 in / $0.3 out, Qwen3.6 35B A3B $0.1 in / $0.95 out per million tokens.
Which is faster, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is faster at 135 output tokens per second, against 15. Time to first token: 1.2 s for Llama 4 Scout, 0.4 s for Qwen3.6 35B A3B.
Which has the larger context window, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.6 35B A3B?: Llama 4 Scout, with 1.3M tokens against 262k.