# Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4 vs Llama 4 Scout

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $0.60 for Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4: 3.3x apart. Output is $0.59 against $1.70 (2.9x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4 | Llama 4 Scout |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Access | Open weights | Open weights |
| Context window | 128K tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $0.60 / M tokens | $0.18 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $1.70 / M tokens | $0.59 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | MIT | Llama community |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | Yes |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $422.50 a month on Llama 4 Scout and $1,315 on Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4 at list: a gap of $892.50, or 3.1x.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 128K for Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4, 8.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4 for

- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (MIT)

## Choose Llama 4 Scout for

- Whole-document reasoning
- High-volume extraction
- Fine-tuning under the Llama 4 license

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4 or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.18/$0.59 per million tokens in and out against $0.60/$1.70 for Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $0.64/$1.82, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 131,072 (128K) for Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4.

### Can I fine-tune Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4 or Llama 4 Scout?

Both publish open weights (Deepseek V3.1 NVFP4: MIT; Llama 4 Scout: Llama community), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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