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Llama 4 Scout vs Phi-4 — Benchmarks, Pricing & Coding Compa…
Llama 4 Scout vs Phi-4: side-by-side benchmarks, pricing, context windows, coding ability and deployment. Pick the right model for your stack.
Overview
Llama 4 Scout: Llama 4 Scout is Meta's efficiency-focused open-weights model with an exceptionally large 10M-token context window and vision support. It is optimized for long-document retrieval and low-cost inference at scale.
Phi-4: Microsoft's 14B dense decoder-only open-weight text model, trained on 9.8T tokens with a synthetic-data-centered curriculum and available through the microsoft/phi-4 artifact and Microsoft Foundry.
Context window: Llama 4 Scout accepts up to 10,000,000 tokens, Phi-4 up to 16,384. Confirm the limit for your specific deployment channel before relying on it.
Llama 4 Scout vs Phi-4 at a glance
| Attribute | Llama 4 Scout | Phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Released | 2025-04-01 | 2024-12-12 |
| Context window | 10,000,000 tokens | 16,384 tokens |
| Input price | $0.11/M tokens | Free / self-hosted |
| Output price | $0.34/M tokens | Free / self-hosted |
| Licence | Llama 4 Community | MIT |
| Self-hostable | Yes, open weights | Yes, open weights |
| Modalities | text, vision | text |
Benchmarks reported for both
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Scout | Phi-4 | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|
| gpqa | 57.2 | 56.1 | 2025-04-01 / 2024-12-12 |
Scores are as published by their cited sources on the dates shown. Different runs use different harnesses, prompts, and dates, so treat these as directional evidence rather than a head-to-head result.
Where they differ most
- Coding: Llama 4 Scout 33%, Phi-4 67%. Phi-4 leads on this dimension.
- Cost Efficiency: Llama 4 Scout 94%, Phi-4 100%. Phi-4 leads on this dimension.
- Reasoning: Llama 4 Scout 67%, Phi-4 65%. Llama 4 Scout leads on this dimension.
Capability scores are ModelRefs' own derived signals, not vendor claims or benchmark results. Validate against your own workload before relying on them.
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Frequently asked questions
Which is better, Llama 4 Scout or Phi-4?
Llama 4 Scout and Phi-4 target different workloads — see the benchmark and pricing tables for a side-by-side answer.
Is Llama 4 Scout cheaper than Phi-4?
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