Llama 4 Scout API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Llama 4 Scout for your use-case.
Fastest
Google Vertex
Azure
Novita
DeepInfraOutput speed
Total 5 providers
Lowest Latency
DeepInfraGoogle VertexAzureNovitaTime to first token
Total 5 providers
Lowest Price
DeepInfra
AmazonNovitaAzureGoogle VertexBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 5 providers
Llama 4 Scout is available through 5 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Google Vertex (158.1 t/s), Azure (132.7 t/s), and Novita (38.4 t/s). Speed varies significantly across providers, with a 316% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, DeepInfra (0.62s), Google Vertex (0.72s), and Azure (0.83s) offer the lowest time to first token.
- For pricing, DeepInfra (0.12), Amazon (0.22), and Novita (0.22) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens. Prices vary up to 2.5x across providers.
- DeepInfra offers both the lowest latency and best pricing, making it attractive for cost-conscious applications. Google Vertex is the fastest option for throughput-intensive workloads.
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Llama 4 Scout
Time per Intelligence Index Task
Cost per Task vs. Time per Task
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Llama 4 Scout providers
Llama 4 Scout is available through 5 API providers: Azure, Google Vertex, DeepInfra, Amazon, and Novita. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
Llama 4 Scout is currently available through 5 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest providers for Llama 4 Scout by output speed are Google Vertex (158.1 t/s), Azure (132.7 t/s), and Novita (38.4 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The providers with the lowest time to first token for Llama 4 Scout are DeepInfra (0.62s), Google Vertex (0.72s), and Azure (0.83s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
Prices for Llama 4 Scout vary up to 2.5x across providers. The most affordable is DeepInfra at $0.12 per 1M tokens, while Google Vertex charges $0.30 per 1M tokens.
Output speed for Llama 4 Scout varies significantly across providers. Google Vertex is the fastest at 158.1 t/s, which is 4.2x faster than DeepInfra at 38.0 t/s.
4 of 5 providers support JSON mode for Llama 4 Scout: Azure, Google Vertex, DeepInfra, and Novita.
3 of 5 providers support function calling for Llama 4 Scout: Google Vertex, DeepInfra, and Amazon.
The best provider for Llama 4 Scout depends on your priorities: Google Vertex offers the highest output speed, DeepInfra has the lowest latency, and DeepInfra provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for Llama 4 Scout, consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Llama 4 Scout's intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview