Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct

MetaMCP Tool Call
meta/llama-4-scout-17b-instructOpen Weights

Open Llama with long-context vision for efficient multimodal agents

Benchmark Pricing$0.72 / 1M in$0.72 / 1M out
Context: 10,000,000 tokens•Max Output: 16,384 tokens•Knowledge: 2024-08•Released: 2025-04-05

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window10,000,00010M tokens
Max Output16,38416.4K tokens
LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable
Input Modalities
TextVision
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 10,000,000 tokens, this model can handle extremely large MCP resource manifests, complete database schemas, and multiple active server tool definitions simultaneously without degradation.

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.META_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "meta/llama-4-scout-17b-instruct",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

PRICING BY PROVIDER

6 providers
OCI Generative AImeta.llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
$0.72 / $0.72
Novita AImeta-llama/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
$0.18 / $0.59
LLM Gatewaynovita/llama-4-scout-17b-instruct
$0.18 / $0.59
Amazon Bedrockmeta.llama4-scout-17b-instruct-v1:0
$0.17 / $0.66
Vertexmeta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct-maas
$0.25 / $0.70
DevPass (LLM Gateway)llama-4-scout-17b-instruct
$0.18 / $0.59

Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.