Llama 4 Scout

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Page updated:  Data confirmed:  Prices normalized to USD per 1M tokens Sample workload: 1M input + 500K output

Budget brief

Llama 4 Scout is estimated at $0.25 for the standard workload.

Llama 4 Scout is best suited for long-context workloads. A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.25.

Input price$0.1per 1M tokens
Output price$0.3per 1M tokens
Context window10Mreported maximum
Releasecatalog timestamp

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Model Specs
ProviderMeta
Model IDmeta-llama/llama-4-scout
Prompt Price
per 1M tokens		$0.1
Completion Price
per 1M tokens		$0.3
Sample Workload Cost
1M input + 500K output		$0.25
Context Window10M
Release Date

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Unit prices $0.1 input / $0.3 output Per 1M tokens

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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (free)Meta$0131.07KSame provider with a lower standard workload estimate.Open model Compare
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Model Introduction

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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Llama 4 Scout is best suited for long-context workloads.

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A 1M input token plus 500K output token workload is estimated at $0.25.

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