Llama 4 Scout
Provider：Meta
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model developed by Meta, activating 17 billion parameters out of a total of 109B. It supports native multimodal input...
Key specs
- Context：1.3M
- Max output：8.2K
- Tokenizer：Llama4
- Released：2025-04-05
Token pricing
- Input price：$0.110 / 1M tokens
- Output price：$0.340 / 1M tokens
- Cache read：$0.055 / 1M tokens
- Blended price：$0.168 / 1M tokens
Modalities
Text, Image
Use Cases
- Deep Reasoning & Analysis：Process long legal docs, academic papers, financial reports; multi-hop reasoning and evidence-chain tracing across huge contexts.（≈ $0.0027/call）
- Vision Understanding & Generation：Recognize data trends in charts, OCR scanned docs, analyze photos and produce structured reports.（≈ $0.0020/call）
When to pick this model
Signals derived from public pricing and spec fields — not a benchmark. Validate with official docs and your own eval.
- Low input + output price: solid fit for high-frequency calls and batch processing.
- Low blended price: budget-friendly for fleet-scale deployment.
- Long context (>=1M tokens): well-suited for long-doc QA, code-base analysis, multi-turn agents.
- Multimodal (text+image): fit for image captioning, OCR, chart QA, vision-grounded reasoning.
FAQ
- What is the token pricing of Llama 4 Scout? Input price $0.110 / 1M tokens, output price $0.340 / 1M tokens, blended about $0.168 / 1M tokens. Refer to Meta’s official page for the exact rate.
- What context window does Llama 4 Scout support? Context window is 1.3M, max output about 8.2K, suitable for long documents, multi-turn chat and complex reasoning.
- What scenarios is Llama 4 Scout best for? Based on its capability and pricing, Llama 4 Scout fits best: Deep Reasoning & Analysis, Vision Understanding & Generation. See the Use Cases section for details and cost estimates.
- What input/output modalities does Llama 4 Scout support? Supports Text, Image modality.
- Is Llama 4 Scout a free model? Llama 4 Scout is billed per token, not a free model.
- Which provider offers Llama 4 Scout? Llama 4 Scout is offered by Meta.
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