Llama 4 Scout vs Llama 4 Maverick
Architecture Comparison
SpecLlama 4 ScoutLlama 4 Maverick
TypeMOEMOE
Total Parameters109B400B
Active Parameters17B17B
Layers4896
Hidden Dimension5,1205,120
Attention Heads4040
KV Heads88
Context Length10,485,7601,048,576
Precision (default)BF16BF16
Total Experts16128
Active Experts11
Memory Requirements
PrecisionLlama 4 ScoutLlama 4 Maverick
BF16 Weights218.0 GB800.0 GB
FP8 Weights109.0 GB400.0 GB
INT4 Weights54.5 GB200.0 GB
KV-Cache / Token196608 B393216 B
Activation Estimate2.00 GB3.00 GB
Minimum GPUs Needed (BF16)
H100 SXM4 GPUsN/A
L40S6 GPUsN/A
Quality Benchmarks
BenchmarkLlama 4 ScoutLlama 4 Maverick
Overall7689
MMLU79.089.0
HumanEval55.063.0
GSM8K85.095.0
MT-Bench81.088.0
Llama 4 Scout
MMLU
79.0
HumanEval
55.0
GSM8K
85.0
MT-Bench
81.0
Llama 4 Maverick
MMLU
89.0
HumanEval
63.0
GSM8K
95.0
MT-Bench
88.0
Capabilities
FeatureLlama 4 ScoutLlama 4 Maverick
Tool Use✓ Yes✓ Yes
Vision✓ Yes✓ Yes
Code✓ Yes✓ Yes
Math✓ Yes✓ Yes
Reasoning✗ No✗ No
Multilingual✓ Yes✓ Yes
Structured Output✓ Yes✓ Yes
API Pricing Comparison
Cheapest Output (Llama 4 Scout)
$0.30/M
Input: $0.18/M
Cheapest Output (Llama 4 Maverick)
$1.80/M
Input: $1.20/M
| Provider | Llama 4 Scout In $/M | Out $/M | Llama 4 Maverick In $/M | Out $/M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| together | $0.18 | $0.30 | $1.20 | $1.80 |
| fireworks | $0.20 | $0.35 | $1.50 | $2.00 |
Recommendation Summary
- ‣Llama 4 Maverick scores higher on overall quality (89 vs 76).
- ‣Llama 4 Scout is cheaper per output token ($0.30/M vs $1.80/M).
- ‣Llama 4 Scout has a smaller memory footprint (218.0 GB vs 800.0 GB BF16), making it easier to deploy on fewer GPUs.
- ‣Llama 4 Scout supports a longer context window (10,485,760 vs 1,048,576 tokens).
- ‣Llama 4 Maverick is stronger at code generation (HumanEval: 63.0 vs 55.0).
- ‣Llama 4 Maverick is better at math reasoning (GSM8K: 95.0 vs 85.0).
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