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 (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 supported languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout uses 16 experts per forward pass and features a context length of 10 million tokens, with a training corpus of ~40 trillion tokens. Built for high efficiency and local or commercial deployment, Llama 4 Scout incorporates early fusion for seamless modality integration. It is instruction-tuned for use in multilingual chat, captioning, and image understanding tasks. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, it was last trained on data up to August 2024 and launched publicly on April 5, 2025.

Pricing

Price per input token: $0.00000008

Price per output token: $0.0000003

Usage Example

NOTE: BrainLink is compatible with the OpenAI API, which allows you to use the OpenAI SDK even with non-OpenAI models

import OpenAI from "openai";
const userAccessToken = await BrainLink.getUserToken();
const openai = new OpenAI({
    baseURL: "https://www.brainlink.dev/api/v1",
    apiKey: userAccessToken,
});
const completion = await openai.chat.completions.create({
    model: "meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
    messages: [
      { role: "user", content: "Hi! How are you today?" }
    ],
});