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Llama 4 Scout vs Inkling

On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $1.87 for Inkling: 10.4x apart. Output is $0.59 against $4.68 (7.9x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

Llama 4 Scout Inkling
LabMetaThinking Machines
AccessOpen weightsOpen weights
Context window1M tokens1M tokens
List price, input$0.18 / M tokens$1.87 / M tokens
List price, output$0.59 / M tokens$4.68 / M tokens
Cached inputn/a$0.374 / M tokens
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 $3,882 on Inkling at list: a gap of $3,460, or 9.2x.

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

Llama 4 Scout$0.18$0.59
Inkling$1.87$4.68
InputOutput

Choose Llama 4 Scout for

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

Choose Inkling for

  • Fine-tuning under a permissive license (Apache 2.0)
  • Published cached-input pricing ($0.37 per M tokens)
Inkling details

Common questions

Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Inkling?

Llama 4 Scout, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.18/$0.59 per million tokens in and out against $1.87/$4.68 for Inkling. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $2.00/$5.01, list plus 7%.

Which has the bigger context window?

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

Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or Inkling?

Both publish open weights (Llama 4 Scout: Llama community; Inkling: 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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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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