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Llama 4 Scout API Pricing

Llama 4 Scout costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens and $0.30 per 1M output tokens. Prices were last refreshed on from the AI Pricing Guru daily pricing pipeline.

Cost examples

These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.

1M input + 1M output

$0.40

A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.

100K input + 25K output

$0.0175

A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.

10M input + 2M output

$1.60

A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.

75% cached input + 250K output

Not listed

Meta Llama does not publish a cached-input rate for this model in our dataset.

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Input cost

$0.10

Output cost

$0.30

Total

$0.40

Price history

input moved from $0.15 to $0.10 and output moved from $0.15 to $0.30 across 74 daily snapshots.

When to use Llama 4 Scout

Good fit

  • high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic

Be careful with

  • decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first

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