Comparisons

Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3.7 Max

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $1.25 for Qwen3.7 Max: 6.9x apart. Output is $0.59 against $3.75 (6.4x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

Llama 4 Scout Qwen3.7 Max
LabMetaQwen
AccessOpen weightsAPI only
Context window1M tokens1M tokens
List price, input$0.18 / M tokens$1.25 / M tokens
List price, output$0.59 / M tokens$3.75 / M tokens
Cached inputn/a$0.125 / M tokens
LicenseLlama communityProprietary API
Fine-tunableYesNo

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 $2,813 on Qwen3.7 Max at list: a gap of $2,390, or 6.7x.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 1M for Qwen3.7 Max, 1.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

Llama 4 Scout$0.18$0.59
Qwen3.7 Max$1.25$3.75
InputOutput

Choose Llama 4 Scout for

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

Choose Qwen3.7 Max for

  • Published cached-input pricing ($0.13 per M tokens)
Qwen3.7 Max details

Common questions

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.7 Max?

Llama 4 Scout, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.18/$0.59 per million tokens in and out against $1.25/$3.75 for Qwen3.7 Max. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $1.34/$4.01, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 1,000,000 (1M) for Qwen3.7 Max.

Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3.7 Max?

Llama 4 Scout publishes open weights (Llama community) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Qwen3.7 Max is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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Run the numbers on your workload

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.