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 | Qwen3 30B A3BQwenRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Qwen |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 5, 2025 | Feb 27, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 328KBest | 41K |
| Max output | 65.54KBest | 32.77K |
| Average output | 79 tokens | 228 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.085Best | $0.10 |
| Output | $0.46 | $0.30Best |
| Performance | ||
| Request success (24h) | 91.6% | 98.4%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 6.5 | 6.6Best |
| Coding Index | 8.2 | — |
| Math Index | 14.0 | 21.7Best |
| 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
- Qwen3 30B A3B
Intelligence Index
- Llama 4 Scout6.5
- Qwen3 30B A3B6.6
Llama 4 Scout: Better than 5% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Llama 4 Scout: 8.2
- Qwen3 30B A3B: —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Llama 4 Scout: 14.0
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 21.7Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.2%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.0%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.0%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.7%Top
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 0.0%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Llama 4 Scout: 3.8%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 4.6%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Llama 4 Scout: 58.7%Top
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 51.5%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Llama 4 Scout: 75.2%Top
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 71.0%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Llama 4 Scout: 39.5%Top
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 31.9%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Llama 4 Scout: 0.0%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Llama 4 Scout: 21.3%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: —
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Llama 4 Scout: 29.9%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 32.2%Top
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Llama 4 Scout: 14.0%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 21.7%Top
AIME
Competition mathematics
- Llama 4 Scout: 28.3%Top
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 26.0%
MATH-500
Competition math problems
- Llama 4 Scout: 84.4%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 86.3%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Llama 4 Scout: 1.5%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 6.8%Top
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Llama 4 Scout: 15.5%
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 22.2%Top
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Llama 4 Scout: 27.7%Top
- Qwen3 30B A3B: 0.0%
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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