Llama 4 Scout

Meta released 2025-04-05 llama-4-community

$0.150 per million tokens, balanced

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 scores higher and costs less — but you would give something up.

+41.5 on the capability index and 30% cheaper ($0.105/M against $0.150/M). What you lose:

  • no image input

Capability scores do not measure context length, output ceiling or which inputs a model accepts, so a higher score does not mean a drop-in replacement.

Every price dimension

Input$0.100/M
Output$0.300/M

Independent scores

Intelligence10.3
Coding8.2
Agentic1.1

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

Capability

Context window1.3M
Max output16K
Input modestext, image
Tool useyes
Reasoningno
Knowledge cutoff2024-08-31
Open weightsyes

Provenance

Price sourceopenrouter.ai
Fetched2026-08-24
Quality dataverified
Cross-checkedvendor page

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...

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