Llama 4 Scout
Llama 4 Scout
Small, multimodal and open, for when the model has to live on your own box.
Updated
The read
Scout is the small end of Llama 4: a mixture-of-experts model light enough to serve on a single high-memory GPU while still reading images. For an internal tool, an on-premise assistant, or anything where the model has to sit next to the data, it is the least complicated open option. It is a small model, and it answers like one when the question gets hard.
Where it shines
- Serves on a single high-memory GPU
- Multimodal despite its size
- Drop-in support in every open serving stack
Worth knowing first
- Reasoning is thin next to the larger models in the same family
- The community licence carries a user-count threshold
Index score
77.3
Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.
- Rank
- 56 of 73
- Builds
- LLMs
- Category
- Open weights
- Output
- Downloadable weights under Meta's community licence
- Pricing
- Free tier
- Best for
- On-premise assistants that must run on one GPU
Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.
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