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# Meta: Llama 4 Scout — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Meta: Llama 4 Scout: $0.100/M in, $0.300/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Llama 4 Scout

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

 $0.150 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## 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

| Intelligence | 10.3 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 8.2 |
| Agentic | 1.1 |

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 window | 1.3M |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 16K |
| Input modes | text, image |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | no |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2024-08-31 |
| Open weights | yes |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor 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...