Meta · Open weights
Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout, a 17 billion active parameter model with 16 experts, is the best multimodal model in the world in its class and is more powerful than all previous generation Llama models, while fitting in a single H100 GPU. Additionally, Llama 4 Scout offers an industry-leading context window of 10M and delivers better results than Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks.
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.085
- Output
- $0.46
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 328K
- Max output
- 65.5K
- Average output (7 days)
- 79 tokens
- Longer than 7% of 465 models
Side by side
Llama 4 Scout compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Llama 4 ScoutMetaThis model | Mistral SabaMistralRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Mistral |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 5, 2025 | Jan 1, 2024 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 328KBest | 32.77K |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 26.21K |
| Average output | 79 tokens | 63 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.085Best | $0.20 |
| Output | $0.46Best | $0.60 |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 91.6% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.5 | 6.5 |
| Coding Index | 8.2 | — |
| Math Index | 14.0 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Tools | Yes | No |
| Vision | Yes | No |
| Structured output | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | — | — |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Llama 4 Scout
- Mistral Saba
Intelligence Index
- Llama 4 Scout6.5
- Mistral Saba6.5
Llama 4 Scout: Better than 5% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Llama 4 Scout: 8.2
- Mistral Saba: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Llama 4 Scout: 14.0
- Mistral Saba: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.2%
- Mistral Saba: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.0%
- Mistral Saba: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.0%
- Mistral Saba: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.7%
- Mistral Saba: —
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Llama 4 Scout: 3.8%
- Mistral Saba: 4.3%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Llama 4 Scout: 58.7%Top
- Mistral Saba: 42.4%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Llama 4 Scout: 75.2%Top
- Mistral Saba: 61.1%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Llama 4 Scout: 39.5%
- Mistral Saba: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.0%
- Mistral Saba: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Llama 4 Scout: 21.3%
- Mistral Saba: —
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Llama 4 Scout: 29.9%
- Mistral Saba: —
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Llama 4 Scout: 14.0%
- Mistral Saba: —
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Llama 4 Scout: 28.3%Top
- Mistral Saba: 13.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Llama 4 Scout: 84.4%Top
- Mistral Saba: 67.7%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Llama 4 Scout: 1.5%
- Mistral Saba: —
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Llama 4 Scout: 15.5%
- Mistral Saba: —
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.7%
- Mistral Saba: —
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Prompt cache hits
- 0.0%
- Request success (24h)
- 91.6%
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Meta
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