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Kimi K2.5 vs Llama 4 Scout

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $0.50 for Kimi K2.5: 2.8x apart. Output is $0.59 against $2.80 (4.7x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

Kimi K2.5 Llama 4 Scout
LabTogethercomputerMeta
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window256K tokens1M tokens
List price, input$0.5 / M tokens$0.18 / M tokens
List price, output$2.8 / M tokens$0.59 / M tokens
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseNot listedLlama community
Fine-tunableYesYes

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 $1,580 on Kimi K2.5 at list: a gap of $1,158, or 3.7x.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 256K for Kimi K2.5, 4.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

Llama 4 Scout$0.18$0.59
Kimi K2.5$0.50$2.80
InputOutput

Choose Kimi K2.5 for

  • Whole-document reasoning
  • Long-context retrieval
  • Open-weight fine-tuning
Kimi K2.5 details

Choose Llama 4 Scout for

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

Common questions

Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.5 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 $0.50/$2.80 for Kimi K2.5. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $0.54/$3.00, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 262,144 (256K) for Kimi K2.5.

Can I fine-tune Kimi K2.5 or Llama 4 Scout?

Both publish open weights (Kimi K2.5: Not listed; 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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Run the numbers on your workload

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Or don’t choose. On Allocate a route name is the contract: point yours at one model today, swap to the other tomorrow, and compare them on your live traffic with per-token metering.

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