How much does Llama 4 Scout cost?

Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens, using the list price from Vercel_ai_gateway as of 26 Oct 2026. That is about $0.03 for 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. Confirm on the maker's site before you buy, because prices change.

What is the context window of Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout has a context window of 131K tokens, roughly 98,000 words of text read at once. A single answer can be up to 8K tokens long.

Is Llama 4 Scout open source?

Llama 4 Scout has open weights: its trained parameters can be downloaded. That is not always the same as open source, because licence terms differ, so read the licence before you use it commercially.

How good is Llama 4 Scout compared with other AI models?

On the Epoch Capabilities Index, Llama 4 Scout scores 129.6 (likely range 125.1 to 131.2), which ranks 161 of 270 models we track. Scores close together are a tie in practice.

How does Llama 4 Scout compare with GPT-4.1 nano?

On quality, neither model leads clearly across the 4 measures both have. 2 measures are too close to call. Their blended prices are similar ($0.15 and $0.18 per million tokens). See the full comparison for every measure.

How current are these numbers for Llama 4 Scout?

The newest data on this page is dated 26 Oct 2026. Scores come from Epoch AI and Arena, prices from the open LiteLLM price list.

AI Rankings

Llama 4 Scout: Score, Price and Context Window

Where Llama 4 Scout from Meta ranks, what it costs and how much text it can read, in plain numbers with the sources.

Data updated 26 Oct 2026

Meta
Open weights
Released Apr 2025

Its score range overlaps with Gemma 3 27B, the model just above it, so a small gap in rank is not a meaningful difference.

Best for

Running it yourself: its weights can be downloaded (read the licence terms first).

These lines are worked out from the numbers on this page, not from hands-on testing.

Key facts

Overall score: 129.6; Rank 161 of 270. Likely range 125.1 to 131.2.
Price per million tokens: $0.10 in / $0.30 out; Blended $0.15. List price from Vercel_ai_gateway, checked 26 Oct 2026.
Context window: 131K tokens; About 98,000 words at once. One answer up to 8K tokens.
Weights: Open; The weights can be downloaded. Check the licence before commercial use.

Features listed by the price list: Image input, Tool use.

We do not have an Arena human-vote rating for Llama 4 Scout yet. It is shown as "Not measured" rather than guessed.

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How Llama 4 Scout stacks up

Each strip shows every model we track as faint bars. The dot is this model. Better is always to the right, even for price.

Llama 4 Scout compared with all models we trackOverall capability: 129.6. Better than 40% of the other 269 models. Price: $0.15 per 1M. Cheaper than 89% of the other 200 priced models. Context window: 131K tokens. Larger context window than 28% of the other 198 models.

Overall capability129.6
Better than 40% of the other 269 models
Epoch Capabilities Index: one score that combines many tests.
Price$0.15 per 1M
Cheaper than 89% of the other 200 priced modelsTop 25%
Blended price per million tokens. Lower is better, so the cheapest models sit on the right.
Context window131K tokens
Larger context window than 28% of the other 198 models
How much text it can read at once. Bigger suits long documents.

Compared with the other published models that have each measure. Data updated 26 Oct 2026.

Where Llama 4 Scout ranks

Leaderboards it appears on, best placing first.

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Test results

Each test checks one kind of skill. Place shows where it stands among the models that took that test.

GPQA Diamond
Very hard multiple-choice science questions in biology, physics and chemistry, written by experts and designed so a quick web search does not give the answer.
51.8%
Place 134 of 183
OTIS Mock AIME
Maths competition problems in the style of the US AIME exam, from the 2024 and 2025 sets. Every answer is a whole number.
7.8%
Place 141 of 174
tied with 1 other
ARC-AGI-2
Visual puzzles where the AI must work out a new rule from a few examples and apply it. They test picking up a new idea quickly, not recalling facts.
0.0%
Place 79 of 86
tied with 7 others

What it costs in everyday terms

List prices turned into amounts you can picture. Real bills depend on how you use it.

100 chats: $0.03; Cost of 100 chats assumes each chat sends 1,000 tokens (about 750 words) and gets 500 tokens (about 375 words) back.
A 300-page book: $0.01; Cost to read a 300-page book assumes about 100,000 input tokens and no reply. A real book varies with page size and language.
Blended price: $0.15 per 1M; Three parts input to one part output. Our own calculation for comparing models.

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Questions about Llama 4 Scout

How much does Llama 4 Scout cost?: Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens, using the list price from Vercel_ai_gateway as of 26 Oct 2026. That is about $0.03 for 100 chats of about 1,000 tokens in and 500 tokens back. Confirm on the maker's site before you buy, because prices change.
What is the context window of Llama 4 Scout?: Llama 4 Scout has a context window of 131K tokens, roughly 98,000 words of text read at once. A single answer can be up to 8K tokens long.
Is Llama 4 Scout open source?: Llama 4 Scout has open weights: its trained parameters can be downloaded. That is not always the same as open source, because licence terms differ, so read the licence before you use it commercially.
How good is Llama 4 Scout compared with other AI models?: On the Epoch Capabilities Index, Llama 4 Scout scores 129.6 (likely range 125.1 to 131.2), which ranks 161 of 270 models we track. Scores close together are a tie in practice.
How does Llama 4 Scout compare with GPT-4.1 nano?: On quality, neither model leads clearly across the 4 measures both have. 2 measures are too close to call. Their blended prices are similar ($0.15 and $0.18 per million tokens). See the full comparison for every measure.
How current are these numbers for Llama 4 Scout?: The newest data on this page is dated 26 Oct 2026. Scores come from Epoch AI and Arena, prices from the open LiteLLM price list.

Where this data comes from

Epoch AI: Benchmark data: Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking', epoch.ai/benchmarks (CC BY 4.0). We match models across sources, rank them and show them in charts. Scores are not changed. Epoch AI does not endorse this site.
LiteLLM model price list: Prices and context windows: LiteLLM model price list (github.com/BerriAI/litellm, MIT licence). We use the model maker's own price entry when there is one. Prices change often, so always confirm on the maker's site before you buy.

Newest data on this page: 26 Oct 2026. Prices are list prices and change often, so confirm on the maker's site before you buy. Sponsors never change a score or an order. How we calculate this · Report a mistake