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Language model

Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct

Meta

Released
April 5, 2025
Data date
September 26, 2026

Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct is the cataloged Instruct identity for Meta’s open Scout weights. As with Maverick, 17B describes active rather than all MoE parameters. Its defining property is a context window of about ten million tokens for text and images.

The weights use the Llama 4 Community License. Llama 4 Scout leads to the family checkpoint, while Llama 4 Maverick 17B Instruct is the Maverick variant with a smaller context window. For Scout, the model card lists vLLM and SGLang, along with quantizations for llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio.

Specifications and access

SpecificationValue and source
Weights
Open weightsSource
Access
Parameters
109 billionSource
Active parameters
17 billionSource
Context window
10,000,000 tokensSource
Maximum output
16,384 tokensSource
Knowledge Cutoff
August 2024Source
License
Llama 4 CommunitySource
Inputs
Text, ImageSource
Outputs
TextSource
Tool calling