Llama 4 Scout is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 17 billion active parameters across 16 experts and 109 billion total parameters. Released in April 2025, it is built for efficiency, fitting on a single NVIDIA H100 GPU with Int4 quantization while holding strong performance across reasoning, coding, and visual understanding. As served here it supports a 128,000-token context window. Scout was trained on roughly 40 trillion tokens of data covering 200 languages, with dedicated fine-tuning support for 12 languages, and has an August 2024 knowledge cutoff. It uses early fusion for native multimodality and includes architecture features such as NoPE layers and chunked attention to help with long-context handling. The model supports tool use and structured output, which makes it flexible for agentic workflows. Compared to its larger Maverick sibling, Scout prioritizes efficiency and deployability while keeping strong image grounding and visual question-answering capability. Meta reports it outperforms Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 across a broad range of widely reported benchmarks.
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Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct runs on 2 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below.
Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct runs on 2 independently monitored routes through the Opper gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.
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Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.
Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.
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import OpenAI from "openai";const client = new OpenAI({apiKey: process.env.OPPER_API_KEY,baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",});const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({model: "deepinfra/meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct",messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],});console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
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