Description

Llama 4 Scout 17B Instruct (16E) is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model developed by 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, Llama 4 Scout incorporates early fusion for seamless modality integration. It is instruction-tuned for use in multilingual chat, captioning, and image understanding tasks. Released under the Llama 4 Community License, it was last trained on data up to August 2024 and launched publicly on April 5, 2025.

Technical Specifications

Example API Call

curl -X POST https://api.neuralhub.xyz/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer NEURALHUB_API_KEY" \
-d '{
  "model": "meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
  "messages": [
    { "role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant." },
    { "role": "user", "content": "" }
  ],
  "temperature": 0.7,
  "max_tokens": 500,
  "top_p": 0.9
}'

Response Format

The API returns an OpenAI-compatible response. Example:

{
  "id": "chatcmpl-<uuid>",
  "object": "chat.completion",
  "created": 1765590371,
  "model": "meta-llama/llama-4-scout",
  "choices": [
    {
      "index": 0,
      "message": {
        "role": "assistant",
        "content": "The answer to life, the universe, and everything is famously 42..."
      },
      "finish_reason": "stop"
    }
  ],
  "usage": {
    "prompt_tokens": 26,
    "completion_tokens": 169,
    "total_tokens": 195
  }
}