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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...
How much does Meta: Llama 4 Scout cost for a real workload?
At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month, Meta: Llama 4 Scout costs about $1.6 ($1 input + $0.6 output). Try your own volumes in the cost calculator.
What are cheaper alternatives to Meta: Llama 4 Scout?
- DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash — $0.02394 in / $0.375 out per 1M
- Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B — $0.09 in / $0.3 out per 1M
- Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 — $0.09 in / $0.3 out per 1M
- Meta: Llama 3.2 3B Instruct — $0.0509 in / $0.335 out per 1M
- Mistral: Mistral Small 4 (batch) — $0.075 in / $0.3 out per 1M
- ByteDance Seed: Seed 1.6 Flash — $0.075 in / $0.3 out per 1M
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Meta: Llama 4 Scout cost?
Meta: Llama 4 Scout costs $0.1 per 1M input tokens and $0.3 per 1M output tokens (list price, snapshot October 21, 2026). At 10M input + 2M output tokens per month that is about $1.6.
What is the context window of Meta: Llama 4 Scout?
Meta: Llama 4 Scout has a context window of 1,310,720 tokens and can return up to 16,384 output tokens per response.
What are cheaper alternatives to Meta: Llama 4 Scout?
Cheaper models include DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash ($0.02394 in / $0.375 out), Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B ($0.09 in / $0.3 out), Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 ($0.09 in / $0.3 out). See the full list on this page.
Is Meta: Llama 4 Scout free to use?
No. Meta: Llama 4 Scout is a paid model at $0.1 input / $0.3 output per 1M tokens. 20 free models are listed on the free models page.
Provider: meta-llama · Model ID: meta-llama/llama-4-scout · Modality: text+image->text · Price snapshot October 21, 2026, refreshed daily. How we collect prices