# DeepSeek V4 vs Llama 4 Scout

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $1.74 for DeepSeek V4: 9.7x apart. Output is $0.59 against $3.48 (5.9x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | DeepSeek V4 | Llama 4 Scout |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Deepseek | Meta |
| Access | API only | Open weights |
| Context window | 512K tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $1.74 / M tokens | $0.18 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $3.48 / M tokens | $0.59 / M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.20 / M tokens | n/a |
| License | Proprietary API | Llama community |
| Fine-tunable | No | 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 $3,306 on DeepSeek V4 at list: a gap of $2,884, or 7.8x.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 512K for DeepSeek V4, 2.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose DeepSeek V4 for

- Reasoning-heavy agents
- Long-document analysis
- Cost-sensitive production routes

## Choose Llama 4 Scout for

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

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, DeepSeek V4 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 $1.74/$3.48 for DeepSeek V4. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $1.86/$3.72, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 512,000 (512K) for DeepSeek V4.

### Can I fine-tune DeepSeek V4 or Llama 4 Scout?

Llama 4 Scout publishes open weights (Llama community) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. DeepSeek V4 is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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