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Llama 4 Scout vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $0.18 for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: effectively level. Output is $0.59 against $0.68 (1.2x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

Llama 4 Scout Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
LabMetaQwen
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window1M tokens256K tokens
List price, input$0.18 / M tokens$0.18 / M tokens
List price, output$0.59 / M tokens$0.68 / M tokens
Cached inputn/an/a
LicenseLlama communityApache 2.0
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 $454 on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct at list: a gap of $31.50.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 256K for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, 4.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

Llama 4 Scout$0.18$0.59
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct$0.18$0.68
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-VL-8B-Instruct for

  • Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct details

Common questions

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?

Llama 4 Scout, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.18/$0.59 per million tokens in and out against $0.18/$0.68 for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $0.19/$0.73, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 262,144 (256K) for Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct.

Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?

Both publish open weights (Llama 4 Scout: Llama community; Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct: 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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