Llama 4 Scout vs Amazon Nova Pro
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Meta · Apr 2025
A 10M-token context window — still the largest ever shipped — in a 109B MoE that fits on a single H100.
Amazon · Dec 2024
AWS's house multimodal model — chosen for Bedrock-native integration and AWS billing more than for benchmark wins.
The verdict
Llama 4 Scout wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Amazon Nova Pro. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Scout works out roughly 5.0x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Scout also takes 10M of context versus 300K for Amazon Nova Pro. And Llama 4 Scout is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
Benchmark head-to-head 1–0
Specs & pricing
| Llama 4 Scout | Amazon Nova Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.18 | $0.8 |
| Output price / 1M | $0.59 | $3.2 |
| Context window | 10M | 300K |
| Max output | — | 10K |
| Open weights | yes (Llama 4 Community License) | no |
| Reasoning model | no | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image, video |
| Knowledge cutoff | Aug 2024 | Oct 2024 |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Dec 2024 |
| Example monthly cost* | $2.68 | $12.80 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Llama 4 Scout or Amazon Nova Pro?
- Llama 4 Scout wins 1 of the 1 benchmarks these models share, against 0 for Amazon Nova Pro. On price the gap is dramatic: Llama 4 Scout works out roughly 5.0x cheaper per blended million tokens. Llama 4 Scout also takes 10M of context versus 300K for Amazon Nova Pro. And Llama 4 Scout is open-weights (Llama 4 Community License), so it can be self-hosted — a structural advantage if data control or vendor independence matters.
- Which is cheaper, Llama 4 Scout or Amazon Nova Pro?
- Llama 4 Scout costs $0.18/$0.59 per million input/output tokens, while Amazon Nova Pro costs $0.8/$3.2. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $2.68 versus $12.80.
- Which model is better for coding, Llama 4 Scout or Amazon Nova Pro?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.