Meta: Llama 4 Scout.
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...
1× Nvidia A100 80GB PCIe · $0.65/hr.
Most-aggressive quantisation we have a working recommendation for. Lower precision = less VRAM = cheaper hardware, at a small accuracy cost.
Cheapest hosted endpoints.
| Provider | Access | $/M in | $/M out | |
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| OpenRouter | api aggregator | $0.1 | $0.3 | Launch ↗ |
Frequently asked.
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Cheapest hardware per quantisation.
Each row is one quantisation tier (the same weights compressed differently). Lower precision → lower VRAM → cheaper hardware, at the cost of small accuracy loss. $/hr refreshed hourly from each provider's API.
| Quantisation | Cheapest GPU config | Total VRAM | Live $/hr | tokens/sec | |
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FP16
FP16 — half precision (default)
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288 GB | — | — | Compare → | |
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FP8
FP8 — 8-bit float (Hopper / Blackwell)
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141 GB | $2.63/hr | — | Compare → | |
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INT4
INT4 — 4-bit integer (~4× VRAM saving)
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80 GB | $0.65/hr | — | Compare → |
What it costs per month across providers.
Estimate your monthly bill for Meta: Llama 4 Scout across every host that publishes per-token pricing. Slide your token volumes; the chart + table re-rank cheapest-first.
Cheapest provider on the left.
Total monthly cost — input + output tokens combined.
Bill breakdown.
| Provider | Monthly total | |
|---|---|---|
| $1.6 | Sign up ↗ |
Rent the GPU instead of paying per token.
For an open-weights model like Meta: Llama 4 Scout, you can rent a GPU and serve inference yourself. The math: cheapest GPU rental × 730 hours/month + your electricity rate × power draw.
Assumes the GPU runs 24/7 at ~85% utilisation. If your traffic is bursty, you'll pay less for the API and probably more for the GPU (idle hours still cost rental). The breakeven analysis lives on the Self-host vs API breakeven tool.