Intelligence
13.5
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General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedMeta: Llama 4 Scout is a budget multimodal generalist from meta-llama with a fast runtime profile, large context posture, and the clearest fit around long-context research / multimodal.
Benchmark blend
Dev workflow signal
Large
Budget tier
Meta: Llama 4 Scout currently reads as a budget multimodal option with large context and a fast runtime profile.
Decision Strip
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General reasoning and benchmark headroom.
LimitedTTFT 0.48s
Above averageHow much prompt and task state can stay in view.
Above average$0.66 output / 1M
EfficientEditorial Profile
Positioning, tradeoffs, and fit are consolidated into one read instead of repeating the same story across separate cards.
Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model developed by Meta, activating 17 billion parameters out of a total of 109B. It supports native multimodal input (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 supported languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout uses 16 experts per forward pass and features a context length of 10 million tokens, with a training corpus of ~40 trillion tokens. Built for high efficiency and local or commercial deployment, Llama 4 Scout incorporates early fusion for seamless modality integration. It is instruction-tuned for use in multilingual chat, captioning, and image understanding tasks. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, it was last trained on data up to August 2024 and launched publicly on April 5, 2025.
meta-llama multimodal profile
Long-context research / Multimodal with large context and fast runtime.
Efficient spend profile. More comfortable for sustained prompt volume if the capability fit is right.
Large context headroom supports repo-wide prompts and long research sessions.
Vision-capable routing opens up multimodal review and extraction workflows.
Latency and throughput look responsive enough for interactive loops.
Budget-friendly input pricing is a strength, but raw capability may vary by workload.
Image-grounded review, multimodal extraction, and UI audit workflows.
Long-context summarization, repo analysis, and policy or document review.
Benchmarks
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Broad reasoning, knowledge depth, and flagship benchmark posture.
Software implementation, debugging quality, and coding benchmark signal.
Formal reasoning, structured problem solving, and competition-style math.
Long-horizon execution quality and interactive benchmark evidence.
Specs & Pricing
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This model is relatively efficient on price. It is the easier fit when sustained prompt volume matters.
Metadata
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