AllocateLlama 4 Scout vs GLM 4.5 Air
On provider list prices, Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18 per million input tokens against $0.13 for GLM 4.5 Air: effectively level. Output is $0.59 against $0.85 (1.4x).
Llama 4 ScoutG GLM 4.5 AirSpecifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-09-12.
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 $453.50 on GLM 4.5 Air at list: a gap of $31.
Llama 4 Scout reads 1M tokens per request against 128K for GLM 4.5 Air, 8.0x 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 GLM 4.5 Air for
- The lower list price ($0.13 in / $0.85 out per M tokens)
- Fine-tuning under a permissive license (MIT)
- Published cached-input pricing ($0.025 per M tokens)
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or GLM 4.5 Air?
Llama 4 Scout, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $0.18/$0.59 per million tokens in and out against $0.13/$0.85 for GLM 4.5 Air. Billed on Allocate: $0.19/$0.63 against $0.14/$0.91.
Which has the bigger context window?
Llama 4 Scout: 1,048,576 tokens (1M) against 131,072 (128K) for GLM 4.5 Air.
Can I fine-tune Llama 4 Scout or GLM 4.5 Air?
Both publish open weights (Llama 4 Scout: Llama community; GLM 4.5 Air: MIT), 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
Or do not 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.