Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Free) vs Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct (Free)

The Meta Llama 3.3 multilingual large language model (LLM) is a pretrained and instruction-tuned generative model with 70B parameters. Optimized for multilingual dialogue, it outperforms many open-source and closed chat models on industry benchmarks. Supported languages include English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Hindi, Spanish, and Thai.

Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model from Meta, activating 17 billion parameters out of a total of 109B. It supports native multimodal input (text and image) and multilingual output (text and code) across 12 supported languages. Designed for assistant-style interaction and visual reasoning, Scout uses 16 experts per forward pass and features a context length of 10 million tokens, with a training corpus of ~40 trillion tokens. Built for high efficiency and local or commercial deployment, it is instruction-tuned for multilingual chat, captioning, and image understanding.