Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct
- Family
- Llama 4
- Released
- 2025-04-05
- Context
- 10M
- Parameters
- 109B (17B active)
- Architecture
- Mixture of Experts
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2024-08
- Specialization
- general
- Openness
- Open weights
- License
- Llama 4 CommunityRestricted
- Weights
- Unknown
- Code
- Unknown
- Training
- Pretrained
Large-scale open-source AI for social technologies.
Cheapest of 12 routes · AWS Bedrock
About
Meta's Llama 4 Scout is a 17-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 16 expert routing. Optimized for efficient inference on edge and cloud environments with strong multi-turn conversation capabilities. Available on Cloudflare Workers AI.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
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Q/$ AProviders(12)
Compare all 12Compare API pricing across 12 tracked provider routes for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock | $0.170 | $0.220 | Serverless Scheduled retirement: March 30, 2027 |
| DeepInfra | $0.080 | $0.300 | Serverless |
| GroqCloud | $0.110 | $0.340 | Serverless |
| Novita AI | $0.180 | $0.590 | Serverless |
| OpenRouter | $0.180 | $0.590 | Serverless |
| GCP Vertex AI | $0.200 | $0.650 | Serverless |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $0.170 | $0.660 | Serverless |
| Microsoft Foundry | $0.200 | $0.780 | Serverless |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | $0.270 | $0.850 | Serverless |
| Fireworks AI | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
| NVIDIA NIM | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
| Together AI | - | - | ServerlessPartial |
Available via routers & gateways(16)
LiteLLM
GatewayOpen-source Python SDK and proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM APIs behind a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with load balancing, cost tracking, and configurable failover.
OpenRouter
HybridUnified hybrid gateway to 400+ models from 60+ providers via a single OpenAI-compatible API, with optional auto-routing that selects the best model per prompt.
Portkey
GatewayProduction AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
AIRouter
RouterCommercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Amazon Bedrock Intelligent Prompt Routing
RouterAWS Bedrock's native intelligent prompt router that routes prompts between Anthropic Claude model tiers (Haiku/Sonnet) based on predicted task complexity, with no extra per-routing charge.
Azure AI Foundry Model Router
RouterMicrosoft Azure AI Foundry's native model router that uses a trained ML model to route each prompt in real time to the optimal Azure-hosted model, with Balanced/Cost/Quality mode selection and automatic failover.
Capabilities
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(5)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Evaluation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1295.0 | —Observed 2026-04-15 | — | ||
| 62.3 | τ-benchObserved 2026-04-24 | — | ||
| 69.4 | —Observed 2025-04-05 | — | ||
| 74.3 | —Observed 2025-04-05 | — | ||
| 32.8 | —Observed 2025-04-05 | — |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.
Rankings & picks(5)
Compare Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct with other models
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- Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct vs Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct21
- Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct vs Grok 419
- Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct vs Mistral Small 414
- Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct vs Gemini 2.5 Flash10
- Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct vs Claude 3.5 Haiku7
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Cheapest of 12 routes · AWS Bedrock