Llama 4 Maverick vs Llama 4 Scout pricing
Meta Llama 4 Maverick and Meta Llama 4 Scout side by side: token prices, cache and batch prices, limits, and the monthly cost of your own workload.
For this workload Meta Llama 4 Scout costs $14.40 a month and Meta Llama 4 Maverick costs $28.62: 2 times as much.
| Attribute | Llama 4 Maverick | Llama 4 Scout |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Input, per 1M tokens | $0.188 | $0.10 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $0.652 | $0.30 |
| Cached input (read) | not listed | not listed |
| Batch (input / output) | not listed | not listed |
| Provider list price (input / output) | not recorded | not recorded |
| Context window | 1,048,576 | 1,310,720 |
| Maximum output | 16,384 | 16,384 |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image |
| Intelligence Index (Artificial Analysis) | not listed | not listed |
| Your cost per month | $28.62 | $14.40lowest |
The cost uses each model’s published cache-read price for the cached share and normal input price where none is published. Full detail: Llama 4 Maverick pricing and Llama 4 Scout pricing.
Collected from the OpenRouter models API (466 entries). 99 models are cross-checked against provider list prices in the LiteLLM price table.
How to read this comparison
A lower price per token does not settle which model is cheaper for you. The two models can differ in how the bill splits between input and output: one may have cheaper input and dearer output than the other. Which side wins depends on how long your prompts are compared with the answers you ask for, so set the workload above to your own traffic before reading the last row.
If your requests repeat a long prefix, such as a system prompt or a document, raise “From cache”. The share you set is billed at each model’s cache-read price when one is published, which can change the result when only one of the two offers it. Reasoning models bill hidden thinking as output: for those, raise the output tokens to what your requests really consume.
Price is one axis. Context window, maximum output and accepted inputs are listed because they decide whether a model can do the job at all; the Intelligence Index, where shown, is a third-party score from Artificial Analysis and not a judgement by this site.
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Questions and answers
Which is cheaper, Meta Llama 4 Maverick or Meta Llama 4 Scout?
For 1,000 requests a day with 3,000 input and 600 output tokens each, Meta Llama 4 Maverick costs $28.62 a month and Meta Llama 4 Scout costs $14.40, so Meta Llama 4 Scout is cheaper for that workload. A different mix of input and output can change the answer; use the simulator on this page.
What are the prices per million tokens?
Meta Llama 4 Maverick: $0.188 input and $0.652 output. Meta Llama 4 Scout: $0.10 input and $0.30 output. These are the OpenRouter prices at the collection of 3 Oct 2026, 08:40 UTC.
Which one has the larger context window?
Meta Llama 4 Scout, with 1,310,720 tokens against 1,048,576.
Do both offer a cached-input price?
Meta Llama 4 Maverick: no cache-read price listed. Meta Llama 4 Scout: no cache-read price listed.
Does this comparison say which model is better?
No. It compares prices and limits. Quality depends on your task; where OpenRouter relays the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index for a model, the table shows it as a third-party reference.
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