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.
Retired on Oct 11, 2026: requests to this model ID now return an error. These models are live and work with the same API key.
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.
No. Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct (Free) was retired on NagaAI on Oct 11, 2026, and requests to it now return an error. Live models you can use instead with the same API key: Muse Spark Open, Muse Wonder and LFM3-1.7B.
It takes text and images as input and returns text.
