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Llama 4 Scout 17B: price on every cloud

Open weights · 109 billion parameters · licence other

Per token, by cloud

US dollars per million tokens, each cloud's cheapest region.
CloudInput, per 1M tokensOutput, per 1M tokensCheapest region
AWS$0.17$0.66us-east-1 · 4 regions
Google Cloud$0.25$0.70global
OCI$0.72$0.72global
Azure——not sold per token
Core42——not sold per token
Alibaba Cloud——not sold per token

Run it yourself

It needs 271.6 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.

CloudCheapest instance that fitsGPUsAn hourA month, around the clock
Google Clouda2-ultragpu-4g4 × A100 80 GB$20.28$14,801
AWSp4d.24xlarge8 × A100 40 GB$21.96$16,029
AzureStandard_ND96asr_v48 × A100 40 GB$27.20$19,854
Alibaba Cloudecs.gn8v-4x.8xlarge4 × GPU H 96 GB$29.25$21,349

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List prices collected 5 October 2026, refreshed every three hours. No negotiated rates or taxes.