Llama 4 Scout: API price, context window and how to connect
Llama 4 Scout by Meta: $0.1 per million input tokens, $0.3 per million output tokens, a 1.31M-token window. What it is good for, what to compare it with and how to connect it in SKILLOK.
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In short#
Meta's mixture-of-experts model: 17 of 109 billion parameters active, with native image understanding. A 1.3-million-token context window and open weights.
Specifications#
| Provider | Meta |
| Released | 2025-04-05 |
| Context window | 1.31M tokens |
| Accepts | text, images |
| Answers with | text |
| Reasoning mode | no |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Open weights | yes |
| Knowledge up to | 2024-08 |
| Identifier | meta-llama/llama-4-scout |
Price#
| Per 1M tokens | In dollars |
|---|---|
| Input (question, context) | $0.1 |
| Output (answer) | $0.3 |
For reference: a conversation of 20 questions of ~500 tokens and answers of ~800 tokens costs about $0.006. Models in reasoning mode spend more tokens on an answer than the text shows: the reasoning is paid for too.
What it is good for#
- Very long context cheaply
- Running on your own hardware
- Images as input
Similar models#
Catalog models with the same kind of output, closest in the price of a typical request.
| Model | Input | Output | Window | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | $0.1 | $0.32 | 131K | about the same |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 | $0.091 | $0.182 | 1.05M | 1.4× cheaper |
| GPT-6 Luna | $0.1 | $0.5 | 1.05M | 1.4× more expensive |
| GPT-6 Luna Pro | $0.1 | $0.5 | 1.05M | 1.4× more expensive |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | $0.1 | $0.5 | 1M | 1.4× more expensive |
Other Meta models#
How to connect in SKILLOK#
Llama 4 Scout works through OpenRouter: add an OpenRouter key in Settings → AI and pick the meta-llama/llama-4-scout model. It then becomes available in Space AI, in tasks and to the repository agent. In detail — Connecting a model in SKILLOK.
Where the data comes from#
Prices, the context window and capabilities come from the public OpenRouter catalog as of 2026-10-19. A provider may change the price — the exact figure is always on the model's OpenRouter page.
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