Meta · Released Apr 5, 2025Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct
Open Llama with long-context vision for efficient multimodal agents.
- Capability
- 129.7ECI · #126 of 148
- Input
- $0.225per 1M tokens
- Output
- $0.69per 1M tokens
- Context
- 10M16K max output
What it costs
- Input
- $0.225per million tokens
- Output
- $0.69per million tokens
- Blended (3:1)
- $0.341cheaper than 69% of priced models
Typical monthly bills
| Monthly usage | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Side project2M input + 0.5M output tokens | $0.795 |
| Team assistant25M input + 5M output tokens | $9.07 |
| Production app250M input + 50M output tokens | $90.75 |
Median of 4 paid API providers on models.dev.
Independent benchmarks
#126 of 148 scored models
The shaded band is Epoch AI’s confidence range (124.8–131.4); the tick marks the median scored model.
Scores from Epoch AI, run independently of Meta.
The details
- Lab
- Meta
- Released
- Apr 5, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Aug 2024
- Context window
- 10,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 16,384 tokens
- Inputs
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning
- No
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Structured output
- No
- Weights
- Open weights
- Availability
- 4 API providerslisted on models.dev
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About Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct
How much does Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct cost?
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct costs $0.225 input / $0.69 output per million tokens (median across 4 API providers). At a 3:1 input-to-output mix that is $0.341 per million tokens, cheaper than 69% of the 360 priced models we track.
What is the context window of Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct?
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct accepts up to 10,000,000 tokens per request and can write up to 16,384 tokens in one response.
How good is Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct?
Epoch AI gives Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct a Capabilities Index score of 129.7 (likely range 124.8–131.4), ranking it #126 of 148 models Epoch has scored. Epoch AI benchmark results: GPQA Diamond 51.8%, OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 7.8%.
Is Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct open source?
Yes. Meta publishes the weights, so it can be downloaded and self-hosted.
What inputs does Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct support?
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct accepts text and images and replies in text. It is not a dedicated reasoning model, supports tool calling.
When was Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct released?
Meta released Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct on Apr 5, 2025. Its training data runs to Aug 2024.
What are the best alternatives to Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct?
The closest current models from other labs on capability, price and release date are Mistral Small 3.1 24B (Mistral AI, ECI 127.5, $0.229 / $0.436), DeepSeek-V3 (DeepSeek, ECI 132.3, $0.32 / $1.10), Gemma 3 27B IT (Google, ECI 130.0, $0.08 / $0.20) and Qwen3 8B (Alibaba (Qwen), ECI 136.2, $0.18 / $0.70).