# Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen 3.5

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $0.60 for Qwen 3.5: 3.3x apart. Output is $0.59 against $3.60 (6.1x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Llama 4 Scout | Qwen 3.5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Meta | Qwen |
| Access | Open weights | Open weights |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 256K tokens |
| List price, input | $0.18 / M tokens | $0.60 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $0.59 / M tokens | $3.60 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | $0.35 / M tokens |
| License | Llama community | Apache 2.0 |
| 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 $1,980 on Qwen 3.5 at list: a gap of $1,558, or 4.7x.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 256K for Qwen 3.5, 4.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Llama 4 Scout for

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

## Choose Qwen 3.5 for

- Multilingual support agents
- Translation-adjacent workflows
- Fine-tuning under Apache 2.0

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen 3.5?

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/$3.60 for Qwen 3.5. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $0.64/$3.85, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 262,144 (256K) for Qwen 3.5.

### Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or Qwen 3.5?

Both publish open weights (Llama 4 Scout: Llama community; Qwen 3.5: Apache 2.0), so both can be fine-tuned. On Allocate the trained weights stay inside your boundary and belong to you.

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