Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct
Hugging Face (meta-llama) Open weights
The catch: Gated download (accept Meta's licence and share contact details on Hugging Face), and EU-based companies get no licence rights to this multimodal model under the Acceptable Use Policy.
| Access | Open weights |
|---|---|
| Free limits | Free to download and self-host; you pay only for your own compute. Licence cap: if your products or services had more than 700 million monthly active users in the month before the Llama 4 release date, you must request a separate licence from Meta. 109B total parameters, 17B active (mixture of experts, 16 experts). |
| Modality | text, code, image |
| Credit card | Not required |
| Commercial use | Allowed |
| Trains on your data | – |
| Licence or terms | Llama 4 Community License |
| Context window | 10,000,000 tokens |
| Model id | meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct |
| Base URL | – |
| Last checked | 2 Oct 2026 |
How to use Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Llama 4 Community License.
ollama run llama4:scout
I want to run the open-weight model "Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct" (meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct) for my project. Please: 1. Check the model card and tell me the hardware it needs and the simplest way to serve it (vLLM, SGLang, Ollama or a hosted endpoint). 2. Give me a minimal working setup and a test request. 3. Tell me the licence terms for commercial use. 4. If a cheaper or smaller variant would do the job, mention it.
Before you ship on it
- Gated download (accept Meta's licence and share contact details on Hugging Face), and EU-based companies get no licence rights to this multimodal model under the Acceptable Use Policy.
- Llama 4 Community License (shown on the HF repo, effective 5 Apr 2025): commercial use allowed below the 700M MAU cap; if you distribute the model or a product containing it you must include the licence and prominently…
- Free to run means you pay for the GPUs, the serving stack and the on-call.
Questions
Is Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct free?
Yes. Open weights offers it as open weights, with these limits: Self-host free · Llama 4 Community License. No credit card is needed.
Can I use Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct commercially?
Yes, under Llama 4 Community License. Check the current terms before you ship.
How do I start with Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E Instruct?
Download the weights and serve them yourself; the quickstart below shows one way. Licence: Llama 4 Community License.
Source: huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct, checked 2 Oct 2026.