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# Meta: Llama 4 Scout — unrated, priced in this catalogue · Undominated.ai

> Meta: Llama 4 Scout: $0.100/M in, $0.300/M out. No independent quality score in this catalogue — unrated, not ranked, not scored zero.

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MODEL PROOF

# Llama 4 Scout

Meta · 05 Apr 2025 · llama-4-community

 Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

NOT INDEPENDENTLY RATED

## No independent LMArena score is published for this model.

 **$0.150** / 1M tokens Balanced · 3 tokens in per 1 out

Serving precision differs between offers.

Evidence as of 06 Oct 2026

 [openrouter/models](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) [Vendor cross-check](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) Independent LMArena score Not independently rated
 Context window 1.31M
 Maximum output 16.38K
 Input modalities text, image
 Output modalities text
 Published input price $0.100 / 1M tokens
 Published output price $0.300 / 1M tokens
 Pricing kind fixed

Inspect [complete billing conditions](#billing-details) and endpoint terms below.

Price from DeepInfra: the cheapest offer that is serving, at standard delivery and at a declared precision that is not 4-bit (fp8), at its standard rate. The maker’s own precision is not known.

 Every price dimension · USD per million tokens

| Input | $0.100 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $0.300 /M |
| Cached input | Unknown /M |
| Cache write | Unknown /M |
| Cache write 1h | Unknown /M |
| Reasoning | Unknown /M |

### Who sells it

The same weights, different shops. Cheapest is not like-for-like when serving precision differs.

Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.180/M from Novita.

 3 provider offers · rates, limits and conditions

Rates are USD per million tokens. Endpoint terms can differ even when the quoted price and precision match. A listed parameter is a provider declaration, not a task-success test.

| Seller | Input | Output | Precision | Uptime (1d) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Seller DeepInfra deepinfra/fp8 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 327,680 tokens Output limit 16,384 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.98% | Input $0.100 | Output $0.300 | Precision fp8 | Uptime (1d) 99.93% |
| Seller Novita novita/bf16 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 131,072 tokens Output limit 117,964 tokens Tools Not listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes 99.77% | Input $0.180 | Output $0.590 | Precision bf16 | Uptime (1d) 99.95% |
| Seller Google google-vertex/us-east5 Endpoint terms Cached input /M Unknown Context limit 1,310,720 tokens Output limit 8,192 tokens Tools Listed by endpoint Reasoning Not listed by endpoint Promotional discount None reported Uptime · last 30 minutes Unknown | Input $0.250 | Output $0.700 | Precision undeclared | Uptime (1d) — |

### Independent scores

No independent benchmark has measured this model. Unrated is not a score of zero.

#### Best rankings by task

 - Data visualisation #120 901
- UI components #124 774
- Code categories #127 795
- Game development #127 786
- Websites #134 757

Per-task Elo and rank from [Design Arena](https://designarena.ai), via OpenRouter’s model feed. The rank is the feed’s, and it counts models OpenRouter does not list.

### 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](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-10-06 |
| Quality data | unrated |
| Cross-checked | [vendor page](https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models) |

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...

## Questions this page answers

 What does Llama 4 Scout cost?

$0.100/M in, $0.300/M out in this catalogue, as of the fetch date on this page. That is the API row, not a subscription.

 Does Llama 4 Scout have an independent quality score?

Llama 4 Scout has no independent quality score in this catalogue. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 What beats Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has no independent quality score. Unrated is not a score of zero.

 Does this page use Artificial Analysis scores for Llama 4 Scout?

No. Artificial Analysis figures are not published here. Quality on this page is LMArena Elo where a score exists; otherwise the row is unrated.

 Does a missing score mean Llama 4 Scout scored zero?

Unrated is not a score of zero.

 Is the cheapest Llama 4 Scout endpoint the same product?

Headline cheapest is a lower precision. Like-for-like at the best declared precision is $0.180/M from Novita.

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## Related

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