Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
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Pricing (per 1M tokens)
Specifications
Intelligence & value
MeasuredWorth it? GPT OSS 20B matches or beats Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct on the overall Arena and costs about $8.00/month versus $30.00/month at 100,000 calls — roughly $22.00/month cheaper.
Intelligence scores are community Arena ratings from LMArena / arena.ai, used under CC BY 4.0. Snapshot last refreshed 27 August 2026. Scores are a relative signal, not an absolute measure of capability. A Measured score was voted on directly; an Estimated score is inherited from an identical base model (a regional/creator-prefixed hosting duplicate). See our methodology.
Where else you can run Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
The same model is resold by 5 providers we track. The typical one charges 2.3× what the cheapest does — $0.3450 against $0.1500 per 1M tokens, blended 3:1. Routing the same workload to a different host is often a bigger saving than switching model.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeepInfra ↗ | $0.1000 | $0.3000 | $0.1500 |
| Novita AI | $0.1800 | $0.5900 | $0.2830 |
| Azure | $0.2000 | $0.7800 | $0.3450 |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $0.2000 | $0.7800 | $0.3450 |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.2700 | $0.8500 | $0.4150 |
Third-party listings via models.dev, not rates we verify with each host the way we do first-party pricing. Treat them as a shortlist to check, not a quote — and confirm quantisation, context limits and rate limits before switching, since a cheaper host is not always serving the same thing.
Estimate cost with Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct is pre-selected below. Enter your token counts and volume to see the cost per request, per day and per month — then switch models to compare.
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- Input cost
- $0.000100
- Output cost
- $0.000150
- Per request
- $0.000250
- Per day
- $0.2500
- Per month
- $7.50
Source: community-hosted (cheapest of 5 providers, deepinfra via models.dev). Prices are re-checked daily against the provider’s official pricing; this rate was last changed on 27 August 2026. A recent date here just means the price is still current, not that it moved.