Anthropic Claude Instant 1.2 vs Meta LLaMA 4 Scout — side-by-side specs.
Anthropic Claude Instant 1.2 | Meta LLaMA 4 Scout | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | Meta |
| Release date | Aug 9 2023 | Apr 5 2025 |
| Model type | — | — |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Specifications | ||
Parameters | — | — |
Context window | — | — |
| Benchmarks | ||
Science reasoning GPQA Diamond | — | — |
Software engineering SWE-Bench Verified | — | — |
Multimodal understanding MMMU | — | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 605 days before LLaMA 4 Scout | |
Claude Instant 1.2 and LLaMA 4 Scout do not have directly comparable benchmark scores published on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU. Claude Instant 1.2 shipped 605 days before LLaMA 4 Scout, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
LLaMA 4 Scout is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude Instant 1.2 is proprietary.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.