LLaMA 4 Scout — pricing & specs
LLaMA 4 Scout is a fast model from Meta, at capability tier 4 of 8. Live $/M-token pricing and specs from the Mintok catalog, as of 2026-07-15.
$/M-token pricing
as of 2026-07-15 · OpenRouter (lowest)What LLaMA 4 Scout costs in practice
At $0.30/M output tokens, LLaMA 4 Scout is the 1st-cheapest of 9 priced tier-4 models in the Mintok catalog — about 54% below the tier median of $0.65/M.
| Scenario | Est. cost |
|---|---|
| 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.400 |
| A 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) | $0.0014 |
| 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) | $0.350 |
| 1M-token RAG chat session (900K cached in / 100K out) | $0.120 |
Estimated from list price (as of 2026-07-15) at the token mixes shown; your real cost depends on prompt/response length and cache hit-rate. Model your own volume →
Specifications
- Vendor
- Meta
- Family
- LLaMA 4 Scout
- Capability tier
- 4 / 8
- Size class
- FAST
- Category
- GENERAL
- Parameters
- 109B total · 1B active (MoE)
- Context window
- 10,000,000 tokens
- Licensing
- Proprietary
Carbon footprint (modeled)
Modeled decode on a reference Cerebras Cerebras WSE-3 Turbo at 50% MBU, batch 32, global-avg grid. Compare all models & grids →
Alternatives at tier 4
Same capability tier, sorted by output price — the cheaper-capable options.
- Qwen 2.5 72BAlibaba$0.40/M out
- DeepSeek V4 FlashDeepSeek$0.60/M out
- GPT-4o miniOpenAI$0.60/M out
- LLaMA 4 MaverickMeta$0.65/M out
- Qwen 3 235B (MoE)Alibaba$1.82/M out
- Claude Haiku 3.5Anthropic$4/M out
FAQ
How much does LLaMA 4 Scout cost per token?
LLaMA 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens, via OpenRouter (lowest), as of 2026-07-15.
Is LLaMA 4 Scout expensive?
At $0.30/M output tokens, LLaMA 4 Scout is the 1st-cheapest of 9 priced tier-4 models in the Mintok catalog — about 54% below the tier median of $0.65/M.
What does a typical request with LLaMA 4 Scout cost?
At list price, a 10K-token request (8K in / 2K out) with LLaMA 4 Scout costs about $0.0014, and 1,000 agent runs (~2K in / 500 out each) about $0.350.
What is LLaMA 4 Scout's context window?
LLaMA 4 Scout supports a 10,000,000-token context window.
What capability tier is LLaMA 4 Scout?
LLaMA 4 Scout sits at capability tier 4 of 8 on the Mintok scale (FAST size class).
Is LLaMA 4 Scout open-source or proprietary?
LLaMA 4 Scout is a proprietary model from Meta, accessed via API.
Put LLaMA 4 Scout to work
Benchmark it on your prompts, or size a deployment and compare $/M-token against alternatives.
Pricing and specs are maintained by Mintok's catalog watchers from public sources. Not investment advice. Methodology.