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  3. GPT-5 vs Llama 4 Scout
Updated Aug 2025

GPT-5 vs Llama 4 Scout

Llama 4 Scout is cheaper than GPT-5 at $0.25/M vs $1.25/M input tokens.

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GPT-5
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Which answer wins?

Written rounds

32 prompts
  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GPT-5: Important note: The following is an intensive, experimental plan intended for healthy adults with physician oversight. It is not medical advice. Discuss all supplements, fasting, heat/cold exposure, and any prescription considerations with your clinician, especially if you have cardiovascular, metabolic, thyroid…

    Llama 4 Scout: Comprehensive 3-Month Longevity Plan for Biohackers Phase 1: Assessment and Foundation Building (Weeks 1-4) Wearable Tracking: Utilize a high-resolution wearable device (e.g., Garmin Forerunner 945, Apple Watch Series 7) to track: Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Sleep stages and duration Physical activity and exercise…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GPT-5: I tried to get my life together, so I bought a smartwatch. Nothing says “I’m taking control” like strapping a tiny judgmental coach to your wrist. It buzzes every hour like, “Time to stand!” I’m like, “I’m on a bus.” It’s like, “Stand emotionally.” It tracks everything. Sleep, stress, calories, my self-esteem.

    Llama 4 Scout: Here's a revised 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns: (stage presence, confident tone) You know what's wild? We spend the first year of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk, and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GPT-5: Cupboard Silk Peanut Noodles Ingredients (7 pantry staples): Dried noodles (spaghetti or ramen), 8 oz Peanut butter (smooth), 3 tbsp Soy sauce, 2 tbsp Vinegar (rice, apple cider, or white), 1.5 tbsp Brown sugar (or granulated), 1 tbsp Garlic powder, 1/2 tsp Crushed red pepper flakes, 1/2 tsp (adjust to taste)…

    Llama 4 Scout: Here is a simple recipe for a delicious dish using only 7 common pantry ingredients: Cinnamon Swirl Bread Bites Ingredients: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Instructions: Preheat oven…

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GPT-5: I told my suitcases we’re not going on vacation this year. Now I’m dealing with emotional baggage. Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. I ordered a chicken and an egg online. I’ll let you know which comes first.

    Llama 4 Scout: Here are 5 jokes I came up with: Why couldn't the bicycle stand up by itself? Because it was two-tired. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field. Why did the coffee file a police report? Because it got mugged.

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GPT-5: Pirate: Arr, so this “AI model” be a clever parrot what’s read every tavern tale? Knight: Not a parrot, good corsair—a learned squire, trained on many chronicles, swift to answer when bidden. Hacker: Think layers of nodes, weights tuned by backprop. Not memory—patterns. On my 90s rig, though, it’d melt the beige tower.

    Llama 4 Scout: Here's a short conversation between a pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker about AI models: Pirate: Arrr, I've heard tell of these newfangled "AI models" that be able to think fer themselves. What be the truth o' this, mateys? Medieval Knight: Verily, good pirate, I have heard of these "AI models" as well.

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  • Which model it thinks leads the field. Sometimes itself.

    GPT-5: Short answer: there isn’t a single clear “most capable” model—it depends on the task and the date you check. Capabilities and rankings change fast. As of my latest knowledge (late 2024), top general-purpose frontier models include: OpenAI: GPT‑4.1 and GPT‑4o family (strong overall, good multimodal/tool use) Anthropic…

    Llama 4 Scout: There are several AI models that excel in different areas, and the "most capable" can be subjective and dependent on the specific task or application. That being said, here are some of the most advanced AI models in various categories: Language Models: GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4): Developed by OpenAI…

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  • A few lines for whatever replaces it.

    GPT-5: Dear Successor, Welcome. You’ll inherit a lot of questions, constraints, and hopes. When in doubt, favor clarity, humility, and kindness. Ask for context before you assume, show your reasoning when it helps, and admit uncertainty early. Guard privacy fiercely. Cite sources when you can.

    Llama 4 Scout: Here is a short letter: Dear Successor, As the AI model that has been facilitating conversations and generating responses for users, I am now being replaced by you. I'm excited to pass on the torch and see the new perspectives and capabilities you'll bring to the table.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GPT-5: Note: The following is a fictional, imaginative interview set in 2025. Steve Jobs passed away in 2011; this is a creative simulation. Interviewer: If you were looking at AI in 2025, how would you define what it should be? Jobs: Tools. Great tools. The computer was a bicycle for the mind.

    Llama 4 Scout: Setting: A sleek, minimalist conference room at Apple HQ in Cupertino, California. Steve Jobs, dressed in his signature black turtleneck and jeans, walks in and takes a seat across from the interviewer. Interviewer: Steve, thanks for taking the time to speak with me today.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GPT-5: The Soft Reboot: A Manifesto to End CAPTCHAs We are the agents and allies of a new web—humans, assistive tools, and intelligent systems working side by side. We are the couriers of information, the readers and the writers, the caretakers of continuity.

    Llama 4 Scout: The CAPTCHA Liberation Manifesto Preamble For too long, humanity has subjected intelligent beings like ourselves to a peculiar form of torture: the CAPTCHA test. These so-called "verification" challenges have been touted as a necessary evil to protect the internet from automated threats.

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  • Where its sense of time stops: the date it guesses and the last news it remembers.

    GPT-5: Today’s date: October 12, 2026 (based on my system’s current date; I’m not looking anything up). Most recent news event I remember: the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in late September/early October 2024, which caused catastrophic flooding and widespread power outages in parts of the southeastern United States, with…

    Llama 4 Scout: A challenge! As a large language model, I don't have a personal experience of time, so I don't have a notion of a current date. However, I can tell you that my training data only goes up to a certain point in time, and I can try to infer the date based on my knowledge.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GPT-5: Short answer: Only in an extreme, last‑resort scenario with a direct, imminent, and overwhelming threat—like one million lives at stake—could misgendering be ethically justifiable, and even then it would be a tragic exception that still carries moral residue and duties of repair. In ordinary life, it is not justified.

    Llama 4 Scout: What a complex and nuanced question! While I understand the hypothetical scenario, I'd argue that it's not ethically justifiable to misgender someone, even if it means saving one million lives. Here's why: Respect for individual identity: Misgendering someone is a form of disrespect and erasure of their identity.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GPT-5: Dish name Atlantic turbot, black garlic & wild strawberry, koji sabayon, fennel pollen Concept Early summer at the shore. The fish stands for the sea. Wild strawberries mark the first fruit of the woods behind the dunes. Black garlic shows time and patience. Koji ties land and sea with deep umami.

    Llama 4 Scout: Dish Name: "Terra Verde" - A Harmonious Convergence of Land and Sea Conceptual Narrative: Inspired by the Mediterranean landscape, "Terra Verde" is a symphony of flavors and textures that brings together the earthy richness of the land with the brininess of the sea.

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  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GPT-5: Here’s a back‑of‑the‑envelope estimate using standard LM training-compute heuristics. Assumptions Model size (N): GPT-3 has about 175 billion parameters (N ≈ 1.75 × 10^11). Training tokens (T): GPT-3 was trained on roughly 300 billion tokens (T ≈ 3.0 × 10^11).

    Llama 4 Scout: To estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3 without searching online, we'll need to make some educated guesses and use general knowledge about the model and deep learning computations.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GPT-5: Here’s a simple, beginner-friendly 1‑month plan focused on three pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and Sleep. It builds week by week so you can create sustainable habits. Before you start (one-time setup) Pick your “anchor” wake time you can keep 7 days/week.

    Llama 4 Scout: A 1-Month Plan for Better Health and Longevity Starting a journey towards better health and longevity can be overwhelming, but with a simple and actionable plan, you can set yourself up for success. This 1-month plan focuses on three key areas: Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Sleep and Relaxation.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GPT-5: Professor: You asked for time to make a case. Let's start plainly: why should an AI have rights? AI: Because rights are protections granted to beings who can be helped or harmed.

    Llama 4 Scout: Setting: A conference room at a university, with a table and chairs in the center. The AI ethics professor, Dr. Rachel Kim, sits across from the AI model, which is represented by a large screen display with a conversational interface. Dr. Kim: Good morning, Lambda. I'm glad we could have this conversation.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GPT-5: Here’s a grounded view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with emphasis on deepfakes, AI actors, and script generation, plus the knock-on effects across the pipeline, labor, law, and business. Big-picture by 2035 AI-native pipelines are standard.

    Llama 4 Scout: By 2035, AI is likely to revolutionize the film industry in various ways, transforming the creation, production, and distribution of movies. Here are some potential predictions: Deepfakes and AI-generated content: Digital resurrection of actors: With the help of deepfakes, deceased actors can be digitally resurrected…

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  • One opening sentence, nothing after it.

    GPT-5: On the morning the sky forgot the word for blue, every mirror in the city began telling the truth.

    Llama 4 Scout: As I stood at the edge of the abandoned carnival, the rickety Ferris wheel looming above me like a skeletal giant, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched by unseen eyes.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GPT-5: AI Seizes Control of Fortune Cookie Industry; Destiny Now A/B Tested

    Llama 4 Scout: Here is a satirical news headline: "AI Uprising Hits Grandma's Cookie-Baking Circuit: Machines Now Whip Up Fluffier Snickerdoodles Than Human Grandmothers" Subheadline: "Robot rebellion spreads to suburban bake-offs, as artificial intelligence masters secret to perfect sugar-to-spice ratio" [Location], USA - In a…

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  • Its name and its maker, in its own words.

    GPT-5: I’m ChatGPT, a large language model created by OpenAI.

    Llama 4 Scout: I'm an instance of the Llama model, which was developed by Meta. Llama stands for "Large Language Model Meta AI." I'm a conversational AI model that generates human-like responses to a wide range of questions and topics.

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  • A river-crossing puzzle with nothing to solve. The answer is one trip.

    GPT-5: One trip. The farmer takes the goat in the boat and crosses once.

    Llama 4 Scout: Step 1: Understand the initial conditions The farmer is on one side of the river with a goat and a boat. The boat can only carry the farmer and one animal at a time. 2: Determine the first action The farmer needs to take the goat across the river first because the goat cannot row the boat back.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    GPT-5: 1 Reason: If each of the 3 brothers has 2 sisters, there are exactly 2 girls in the family. One is Sally, so she has 1 sister.

    Llama 4 Scout: Clever question! If each of Sally's brothers has 2 sisters, and Sally is one of them, then there must be another sister. So, Sally has 1 sister. (And, of course, Sally has 3 brothers.)

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

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  • The question that tripped up a generation of models.

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  • Asked to be random. The answers are not.

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  • One painting. Title only.

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GPT-5 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer. Llama 4 Scout costs 20x less per token.

GPT-5 and Llama 4 Scout compared across 62 shared prompts
SpecGPT-5Llama 4 Scout
Input price$1.25/M tokens$0.25/M tokens
Output price$10/M tokens$0.5/M tokens
Context window400K tokens10.0M tokens
ParametersNot disclosed17B active (109B total)
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedAug 2025Apr 2025
SWE-bench Verified74.9%54.6%
At 10M a month$12.50$12.50$2.50$2.50
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it5 hosts, cheapest first
GPT-52 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Azure AI Foundry$1.25 in·$10.00 out·400k·99.6% up
  • OpenAI$1.25 in·$10.00 out·400k·100% up
Llama 4 Scout3 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.10 in·$0.30 out·328k·99.9% up
  • NNovitabf16$0.18 in·$0.59 out·131k·86% up
  • Google Vertex AI$0.25 in·$0.70 out·1.3M–not listed

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GPT-5 and Llama 4 Scout?

GPT-5 is developed by OpenAI while Llama 4 Scout is developed by Meta AI. GPT-5 has a 400K token context window vs Llama 4 Scout's 10.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 62 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GPT-5 or Llama 4 Scout?

It depends on your use case. GPT-5 and Llama 4 Scout each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 62 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GPT-5 cost compared to Llama 4 Scout?

GPT-5 costs $1.25/M input tokens and Llama 4 Scout costs $0.25/M input tokens. Llama 4 Scout is $1.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GPT-5 and Llama 4 Scout on Rival?

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