Side-by-side sourced facts
Both columns quote the same reviewed Epoch AI catalog artifact. The LMArena row quotes the separately pinned snapshot published July 12, 2026 and appears only for an exact source model match. Missing values stay missing.
| Field |  Llama 4 Scout |  Mistral OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Meta | Mistral |
| Released | April 5, 2025 | March 6, 2025 |
| Domains | Multimodal, Language, Vision | Multimodal, Vision, Language |
| Tasks | Chat, Code generation, Visual question answering, Language modeling/generation, Question answering | Character recognition (OCR), Chat, Language generation |
| Access | Open weights (restricted use) | API access |
| Weights | Open weights | Closed weights |
| LMArena rating | No exact model match in this snapshot | No exact model match in this snapshot |
| Context window | Not reported by this source | Not reported by this source |
| Price | Not reported by this source | Not reported by this source |
Common questions
Is Llama 4 Scout better than Mistral OCR?
No published ranking covers both models in Model Gauntlet's approved sources: the LMArena snapshot published July 12, 2026 has no exact match for either model. The Epoch catalog documents what each model is for; it does not measure which is better.
Which is newer, Llama 4 Scout or Mistral OCR?
According to Epoch AI's model catalog (retrieved July 14, 2026), Llama 4 Scout is newer: it was released April 5, 2025, while Mistral OCR was released March 6, 2025.
Can you self-host Llama 4 Scout or Mistral OCR?
Only Llama 4 Scout, according to the Epoch records: it ships open weights with a stated use restriction, while Mistral OCR is a closed-weight model with API access only.
Evidence boundary
This page declares no winner beyond what a named source's numbers say. Where the sources do not overlap, the page says so plainly. Task quality, price, context window, latency, and reliability are not reported by these sources, so no claim about them appears here. Both models still require hands-on evaluation on your own workload.