# Llama 4 Scout vs Claude Sonnet 5

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $3 for Claude Sonnet 5: 16.7x apart. Output is $0.59 against $15 (25.4x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Llama 4 Scout | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Meta | Anthropic |
| Access | Open weights | API only |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $0.18 / M tokens | $3 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $0.59 / M tokens | $15 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Llama community | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | Yes | No |

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 $8,850 on Claude Sonnet 5 at list: a gap of $8,428, or 20.9x.

Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 1M for Claude Sonnet 5, 1.0x 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 Claude Sonnet 5 for

- Judgment calls with policy context
- Customer-facing writing
- Review and escalation flows

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Claude Sonnet 5?

Llama 4 Scout, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.18/$0.59 per million tokens in and out against $3/$15 for Claude Sonnet 5. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $3.21/$16.05, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 1,000,000 (1M) for Claude Sonnet 5.

### Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or Claude Sonnet 5?

Llama 4 Scout publishes open weights (Llama community) and can be fine-tuned on your own data. Claude Sonnet 5 is a closed model served over API; its weights are not available.

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