Llama 4 Scout API Pricing
Meta · Budget · Llama 4 · released 2025-04. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
The price we publish for Llama 4 Scout has changed 2 times since 2026-08-15, most recently on 2026-09-01 when the reference host changed (-11.4%); it is now the 47th cheapest of 142 Budget models. None of its 3 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. It is rated a stable release but does not meet all four criteria of the FinOps Friendly badge.
- Input: $0.10 per 1M tokens
- Output: $0.30 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): not published
- Prompt-cache read: not published
- Context window: 1M
- Arena ELO: 1322 (as of 2026-09-25)
- Available on: AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Foundry, Google Vertex, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
Llama 4 Scout market position
On blended price ($0.240 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 65% of Budget models: 47th cheapest of 142, tied with 3 others. Across every category it is cheaper than 83% of priced text models in the catalogue: 47th cheapest of 281, tied with 3 others. Its Arena ELO of 1322 ranks 62nd of the 68 models that carry one, above 9% of them.
Llama 4 Scout licence, size and capabilities
Llama 4 Scout is open weights, which is not the same as open source: the weights are published, but under Llama 4, a licence that restricts some uses. Read it before self-hosting commercially. Its published size is 109B parameters. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Agents. Filling its 1M context window once costs $0.10 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $30 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $44 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $136 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $79 |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $90 |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $33 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $41 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $150 |
Llama 4 Scout pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 3 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown. These hosts do not all serve the model at the same numeric precision, so the cheapest is not a like-for-like substitute for the dearest.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 3 hosts: DeepInfra at $0.10 input / $0.30 output per 1M tokens. It serves a quantized fp8 build, which is not the same product as the full-precision model. The dearest, Google, charges 2.4x the cheapest.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra (the price shown above) — fp8 | $0.10 | $0.30 |
| Novita — bf16 | $0.18 | $0.59 |
| $0.25 | $0.70 |
Llama 4 Scout price history
Llama 4 Scout has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.10 input / $0.30 output per 1M tokens. The price we publish has changed 2 times since then, 1 of them a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-01, was -11.4% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.10 input / $0.30 output (reference host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is back where it started on 2026-08-15.
| Date | Old price (in / out) | New price (in / out) | Blended change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-01 | $0.11 / $0.34 | $0.10 / $0.30 | -11.4% (reference host changed, not a repricing) |
| 2026-08-26 | $0.10 / $0.30 | $0.11 / $0.34 | +12.9% |
Alternatives to Llama 4 Scout
- Next cheaper Budget model: MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi) at $0.238 blended, 1% less.
- Next more expensive: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) at $0.254 blended, 6% more.
The nearest Budget models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Llama 4 Scout.
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Meta) — $0.10 in / $0.32 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1318: 6% more expensive, 4 ELO points lower
- GPT-4o-mini (OpenAI) — $0.15 in / $0.60 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1318: 94% more expensive, 4 ELO points lower
- Llama 4 Maverick (Meta) — $0.19 in / $0.65 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1327: 114% more expensive, 5 ELO points higher
- Llama 3.1 70B Instruct (Meta) — $0.40 in / $0.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1293: 67% more expensive, 29 ELO points lower
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: Llama 4 Scout is itself the cheapest of the 6 models scoring within 15 points of its ELO.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: Llama 4 Scout itself has the highest score of the 2 models priced within 20% of it.
Common questions about Llama 4 Scout pricing
- How much does Llama 4 Scout cost?
- Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.30 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Llama 4 Scout offer batch or cached pricing?
- No batch or cache pricing is published for this model.
- What would Llama 4 Scout cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Llama 4 Scout costs about $30 at list prices.
- Has the price of Llama 4 Scout changed?
- Llama 4 Scout has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $0.10 input / $0.30 output per 1M tokens. The price we publish has changed 2 times since then, 1 of them a change of reference host rather than a repricing. The latest change, on 2026-09-01, was -11.4% on the blended price (30% input, 70% output), to $0.10 input / $0.30 output (reference host changed, not a repricing). Net of all changes, the blended price is back where it started on 2026-08-15.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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